06-11-2016, 07:04 PM
(06-11-2016, 04:45 PM)Lens Wrote: Seriously? Better than 90% of Kitchener? Feel free to give some examples of areas that are worse or even as bad as most of the student housing in Waterloo.
1) Downtown Kitchener still boarded up and empty lots. 2) The innovation district which it still is mostly parking lots 3) Victoria Street. 4) Drive down Weber or Belmont and a few blocks past the border houses go down hill.
Quote: While your visitors may think the area is ugly it's also interesting to note that most visitors wouldn't even know when they've crossed from one city to the other.
Quite to the contrary, we welcome visitors all the time and it is a common comment when we tour them around the city. Housing goes down rapidly a few blocks past the border and it doesn't come close to anything in average Waterloo until you get to Victoria park or some of the neighbourhoods around Greenbrook Dr or Glasgow West.
I do agree that neither city is about to win awards for nicest views. My point is the whole area is a mess and focusing in King and Columbia seems odd, when your own downtown looks freshly bombed (Mayfair, empty lot across the street, the still dis-repaired fire down King, and the parking lot next to it, the falling apart Market square) or the innovation district is still a half project full of parking lots rather than a built up vibrant area (going in the right direction though).