01-14-2016, 02:22 PM
Both new City Halls moved the governments out of leased space and into their own buildings. Kitchener has done a better job at using the City Hall area as a hub for cultural events than Waterloo, though both the Buskers and the Jazz Festival will likely be in the Waterloo City Hall parking lot for the foreseeable future.
Jane Bond Café circa 1995 and Starlight Social Club (circa ?)
- These two venues provided an Uptown location for an eclectic mix of musicians and groups to bring their acts to Waterloo.
Updating the Heuther Hotel (and adding the Lion Brewery Restaurant brew pub circa 1987) and the Waterloo Hotel refurbishments (circa 1996?). Both buildings define the Uptown streetscape and have fostered various other businesses both within and in the area.
In the realm of things that *didn't* happen, for Kitchener, the fact that the property owner who owned what became the Apollo theatre didn't tear out the old theatre after it closed circa 2000 meant that the Apollo could fairly quickly re-establish the space as a repertory movie theatre.
Jane Bond Café circa 1995 and Starlight Social Club (circa ?)
- These two venues provided an Uptown location for an eclectic mix of musicians and groups to bring their acts to Waterloo.
Updating the Heuther Hotel (and adding the Lion Brewery Restaurant brew pub circa 1987) and the Waterloo Hotel refurbishments (circa 1996?). Both buildings define the Uptown streetscape and have fostered various other businesses both within and in the area.
In the realm of things that *didn't* happen, for Kitchener, the fact that the property owner who owned what became the Apollo theatre didn't tear out the old theatre after it closed circa 2000 meant that the Apollo could fairly quickly re-establish the space as a repertory movie theatre.