03-02-2015, 01:23 PM
(03-02-2015, 11:03 AM)BuildingScout Wrote: I think the longer they wait, the lower the commercial value. The city has routed around it now and it is becoming its own isolated dead end. They should expand the Waterloo Inn, built ten office/apartment towers like the Barrel Yards with plenty of commercial space at ground level and a central court yard. It is also now nearly impossible to make it interact with either Weber or King St the way things are now.
As I said, the time to develop this was 15-20 years ago. Now the town has turned it's back on that empty corridor on both sides of King and both sides of Weber.
They aren't making more land. Once the larger swaths of vacant land or brownfield land are developed in Waterloo, these parcels will become more appealing. After all, the Barrelyards property sat vacant for nearly 20 years before something happened.