Hamilton Development

[westwardloo]

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.

I think the biggest issue currently in the region is we have a few smaller local developer and the bigger ones tend to be from London, which to be honest is a small town city. Hamilton has their own smaller local developers and then they are getting bigger companies from Toronto, which tend to look a bit bigger. I am still waiting on the Toronto players to discover KWC and start some big momentum here. Not that there hasn't been great progress in the past 10 years. There is lots of land in the DTcore it is just a narrow core so everything seems close to a "heritage" home.  345 king and the google office are great additions, but they max out at 10fl this proposal is a 25fl and a 21fl and a 12fl office building proposal, these will be huge.