Hamilton Development

[westwardloo]

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/96661...mall-site/

Although this developer hasn't produced the best work in the past. I wish something like this would happen for the failure that is the Market Square in downtown. Unfortunately I don't see that happening anytime soon since Conestoga college is moving in and the record is probably a stable tenant. Probably one of the things I want most for the downtown is for the whole market square block to be demolished.

I'm not sure that, in Kitchener's case, that the repurposed mall is going in the wrong direction. What DTK needs is more people living, shopping, working and, yes, educating themselves, there. It's difficult to say how large these campus will become, but I can imagine that in a few years it will be quite large, and will be a good economic boom for the downtown core.

Whatever the case, I know a lot of people want something different there; many wanted the new "Aud" to have been built there. But clearly this isn't happening either.

I am totally in agreement in regards to people living, working and going to school in the downtown. My argument is that if Conestoga college had chosen a different building to set up shop temporarily and maybe eventual build a purpose built space like the mcmaster pharmacy school that would have been more favorable than propping up a blight on the downtown like Market Square. as long as there are tenants to rent the space I don't think we will ever be rid of this block unfortunately.