The Barrel Yards | 25 fl | U/C

[taylortbb]

https://www.rentcanada.com/waterloo-on/1...blvd/35469 suggests $1770 to $2670.

[CP42]

A crane is up and another building is under construction.

[jshamont]

A crane is up and another building is under construction.

That phase is known as The Staves at Barrell Yards. It's well up off the ground now and visible from Waterloo Park.

[panamaniac]

A bit of colour would have killed them? It seems so dreary.

[nms]

The various Christmas lights at night are a nice touch.

[Chris]

A bit of colour would have killed them?  It seems so dreary.

Greige is a colour. /s


Greige adjective - of a colour that blends grey and beige

[ac3r]

They look like faux luxury commie blocks in the PRC.

[CP42]

6th tower is topped out. 
Why do they have 2 or 3 panels of precast that seem to be the wrong colour and throw off the symmetry of the building?

[Lens]

Adding some variety to the existing hellscape?

[mastermind]

It's gotta be a mistake and will still get painted correctly... that can't possibly be the look they were going for!

[bravado]

It's gotta be a mistake and will still get painted correctly... that can't possibly be the look they were going for!

Stalingrad chic is in this year, I assume

[Spokes]

Do you all remember back in like 2007 when this was the next great project, and was going to change everything. Hard not to think about this and Centre Block in DTK and think about what those expectations used to be and how much things have changed in 15 years.

[panamaniac]

One could be forgiven for concluding that developers over sell their proposals.

[ZEBuilder]

Auburn has submitted a ZBA/OPA for the last 3 buildings on the site (the one between the Delta Hotel and the existing towers (K), and the two fronting Father David Bauer(F/G)).

Parking is no longer legally required anywhere in Ontario as per Bill 185 within MTSAs, Kitchener got ahead of that with Growing Together but the province has forced it on all other municipalities with MTSAs. Auburn is still providing 293 spaces for building K (1.07 per unit) and 690 spaces for building F/G (1.13 per unit) in a 6 floor podium. Auburn is providing 167 bicycle spaces for building K and 370 spaces for F and G.

Building K will be 18 floors, with the F and G being 31 floors a piece.

The 18 floor tower is pretty standard, it looks identical to the last two that Auburn has built on the site, it will include 206 1bdrm or 1bdrm+den units as well as 69 2bdrm or 2bdrm+den units. With the average unit sizes being 573, 703, 923, 1062 sqft respectively.

The 31 floor towers will include 415 1bdrm or 1bdrm+den units as well as 199 2bdrm or 2bdrm+den units. The sizes are all similar to those in Building K.

The entire podium of the 31 floor towers is allotted to parking, the renderings show masking of the parking podium with a screening material that has barrels and wheat printed on it. Given Auburn will retain ownership of this (they also have their name on the podium facing Erb/Father David Bauer) it wouldn't surprise me if they followed through, or we could get a bait and switch like Duke Tower, either way the parking podium on this is significant.

The documents can all be found on Waterloo's Engage page here: Father David Bauer Dr and Merchant Dr planning application | EngageWR

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[panamaniac]

They need to take that podium facade down a couple of degrees.