15 Cedar Street N | 3 fl | Completed

[Rainrider22]

This will be an amazing place to live. With 3 bakeries, Portuguese Chicken, The Humble Lotus sushi, , Yeti Cafe, Pho Do Bo, Kitchener Market, and I could go on and on... All within a 3 min walk...

[ac3r]

Yeah. This whole end of downtown has such a good vibe. It may be due to the fact it's a fairly working class neighbourhood. It's being revitalized, but not in a generic way where everything gets bulldozed and replaced with shitty white/grey/black condo towers with zero soul. Carefully keeping a mixture of original buildings while also introducing new midrise developments would be perfect, since smaller developments tend to activate the public space much better than huge towers do. As the architectural theorist Christopher Alexander often said, the closer people are to the street, the more the community feels connected.

There is so much potential here to turn it into an even more walkable, vibrant, colourful neighbourhood than it already is so long as they can plan it right. The City of Kitchener has plans to pedestrianize either Cedar or Eby which would really improve things. Turning it into a place where there are calm pedestrian spaces, shops, the market, art galleries, music venues, parks, gardens, playgrounds etc would be really awesome. It could become a Kensington Market or Mile End type neighbourhood in that sense.

I also find this area to be a great example as to why they should have elevated or tunnelled the LRT at least from Stirling to Victoria. The two lanes of road with the endless stretch of concrete for the rail corridor really ruined the pedestrian experience here and there is no fixing that anymore. There is lots of room for improvement otherwise, but Charles Street is as ugly as Victoria or Weber Street is.

[ludo643]

Hopefully, the city’s plans to enhance walkability with more green spaces and shops will help maintain that charm

[tomh009]

The foundation is done being poured. Seems like this will go up fast.

I expect it to be a wood-frame building, so yes, should be fast.

[KevinL]

Framing has indeed been basically finished, now.

[tomh009]

This one, too, is now complete.

   

   

[westwardloo]

Nice little infill, but definitely a couple features that I think the cheaped out on that make this building look just OK. First why the white doors? makes the building look cheap. Second it would have looked a lot better if they carried the red brick feature throughout the side elevations. Wouldn't need to be as much as the front, but just a little accent.  Lastly why are some balcony railing glass and some spindles? They should have chosen one and sticked with it, ideally spindle. Still a good addition to the market district.

[Momo26]

One has to walk down a somewhat narrow corridor along the fence to get to their unit?

[tomh009]

One has to walk down a somewhat narrow corridor along the fence to get to their unit?

Not so much different from OTIS; this is one of the constraints that comes with very narrow lots.