02-06-2020, 02:32 PM
(02-06-2020, 12:46 PM)westwardloo Wrote: I wish we would see these types of office developments in Downtown Kitchener, Even uptown although i know that will never happen. Unfortunately I think a few things are stopping this. RIM left a large quantity of suburban office space that needed to be lease, I would argue that Waterloo is also preventing this from happening as they continue to build more suburban 90's style tech offices in the David Johnston Research & Technology park.
I would too. We do have some viable land in the DTCore, but even if we were to use it, there are several other area's that we could urbanize a lot more, but it's difficult with NIMBY'ism and the heritage folks. Kitchener could sell some parking lots to help pay for their new garage and put high density offices or condo/apartments in. One example example is the lot across from the Dollarama on King/Frederick. The lot behind next to Oracle. I am sure there are a ton of options. You just need the right developer and mentality.