General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[ZEBuilder]

There's a "road permanently closed" sign at Nyberg between Borden and Ottawa, and the buildings along that whole stretch are fenced in with Romeo Demolition fences (Sherwood Music etc.).  Also from Ottawa to Sydney the building across the creek from Nyberg are fenced in with Romeo Demolition fences. 

Maybe they're doing the creek re-naturalization thing here, similar to what they've done in other areas of town?

Yes, it's part of phase 1 (Kent to Sydney) as part of the larger Schneider Creek project from Stirling to Sydney. The city still needs 1 property in that phase 1 section from my understanding and then they have all the property they need.

Phase 2 is further down the road but also has less of an impact on surrounding land, especially when considering future redevelopment.

Long term the city hasn't made it public what they're planning to do with the land that isn't directly needed for the creek project, very likely it's new parkland. The city could sell the land for redevelopment, however there are some critical utilities running under some of the closed streets meaning if the city were to use existing closed streets as part of new land parcels there would be some significant prep work making parkland way more likely.

We do have a thread somewhere on here for the larger Schneiders Creek project.