9, 33 & 47 Erb St W | 39 fl | Proposed

[ZEBuilder]

This is a single tower development at the old Angie's Kitchen and Atrium on Erb Street. This has been in the works for a couple of years now. The city approved some land swaps a few weeks ago to make this tower feasible, the city can get the land back if it doesn't go through. The developer behind this is Momentum, the architect on this is Edge Architects and Studio Canoo.

The project itself is located at 9, 33, and 47 Erb St W. The development will include commercial space fronting Erb St. The arch set doesn't state actual sizes anywhere, however it appears to be around 1500-2000sqft in total.

The existing parking lot will be redesigned in such a manner that there will be an additional 9 spaces even with the tower taking up a significant footprint. Within the tower itself there will be 8 floors of parking, due to the hill there is only 1 floor entirely below grade, with another floor partially below grade with the Erb St side below grade with the back side above. The remaining 6 floors will all be within the podium. In total there will be 216 spaces as well as 248 Type A bicycle spaces.

As for units there will be 28 studios, 83 1 bedroom, 165 1 bedroom+den, 93 2bedroom, 35 3bedroom, and 8 3bedroom+den. In total 33% of the building will be 2 Bedroom units or larger. There will be 4 elevators to serve the development which allows for one elevator per 103 units, generally speaking a ratio of 1:100 or less is good, anything more is worse and generally not recommended (however it happens regularly).

There will be 320 sqm of indoor amenity and 594 sqm of outdoor amenity space on top of the podium.

Engage Waterloo Page:9 Erb St Documents
Arch Set:9 Erb St Arch Set
Urban Design Brief:9 Erb St Urban Design Brief

Site Plan:
   

Rendering from Waterloo Town Square:
   

Rendering from Erb St (shows the commercial space and podium cladding):
   

[Vojnik_Vahaj]

Kind of bland looking. But worse yet, surface parking. Yuck

[westwardloo]

Kind of bland looking. But worse yet, surface parking. Yuck

Really? I think this looks really good. Compare this to the absolute garbage Auburn is proposing down the road and this looks like an absolute gem. It will depend on the material selection of course, but if we can get something built in this Region that isn't a beige stucco or white, grey, black or blue rectangle building that is a huge win. 

This obviously has a parking podium, but overall it looks like look ok, I like that they are delinating the floors by breaking up the precast. The with the ground floor retail looking high-end compared to what we are used to seeing in the Region. 

The tower itself, although it changes design every couple floors appears to be done in a thoughtful cohesive way. Plus it is a square floor plate!!!

Having said this, since it is a quality proposal it will not get built.

[adjlar]

Yeah the surface parking is a no from me, but I genuinely like the composition of the tower.

[ac3r]

With the right materials the tower could look pretty nice. Since this is Waterloo, though, I highly doubt it'll happen anytime soon - if ever. They've been planning a project here since about 2018 and nothing has happened.

[westwardloo]

Yeah the surface parking is a no from me, but I genuinely like the composition of the tower.

I am pretty sure the surface parking is a separate property and could be developed later, I know the developer did a land swap with the city to consolidate the property.

[urbd]

Uptown Waterloo is literal development hell. There are what, 10+ projects approved that just can't start construction? So this one will probably join those. Nice to dream though!

[nms]

The Record article mentioned a possible second building to the east in this project. Would that mean in the gap between this building and the BMO building?

[Momo26]

Building renderings look nice. Whats the status then?

[urbd]

The Record article mentioned a possible second building to the east in this project.  Would that mean in the gap between this building and the BMO building?

It's basically attached to BMO - sort of integrating it within the new building. Yes I know it's heritage but that's the proposal.

[dubya]

The Record article mentioned a possible second building to the east in this project.  Would that mean in the gap between this building and the BMO building?

It's basically attached to BMO - sort of integrating it within the new building. Yes I know it's heritage but that's the proposal.

That's inaccurate. The documents clearly show a gap with narrow parking in between