01-14-2026, 11:02 PM
(05-16-2025, 04:25 PM)ac3r Wrote: I'm not really comparing Kitchener to Berlin, I'm just saying that downtown Kitchener doesn't really feel like a place most want to be because it just has a very cold, uninviting, dirty vibe.
But there's also nothing to really do on a day to day basis. I don't even mean stuff like a new sports stadium or whatever that can offer one-off events, but what is the draw for anyone who doesn't already live downtown to want to go downtown? There's more natural environment, more to do and less schizo drug addicts in any of the most generic suburban neighbourhoods. Downtown - for those not living there - is at best a place you go for the occasional dinner date, maybe see some random band, work or study and pass through on transit or driving. Condos that are already falling apart such as Duke Tower sure haven't done anything to improve it either.
It's objectively just a boring, yucky place with no real direction or coherent goal.
I also wish there was far more of a 'pull' to downtown. More things to just do for hanging out. Social scene.