227 King St S (Sun Life Building)

[BuildingScout]

Hey!  I like the old Woolworths building and believe it has far more going for it than anything that would be likely to replace it.  Sue me.

Let's have a look at recent projects in downtown Kitchener: School of Pharmacy, One Victoria, City Centre, Kitchener City Hall, The Museum, the Tannery, the Kaufman lofts, the Arrow lofts, the new Court house, the Charles St Parking Garage. All of those are rather nice.

While I agree there is no guarantee that the new structure will be better in general, in this particular case I feel relatively confident of it because (1) the building is rather mediocre to begin with and (2) downtown seems to be on a winning architectural streak of late as described above.