200 Northfield Dr | 40 fl | Proposed

[Lebronj23]

   

A new tallest for Waterloo at 200 Northfield and 570 Weber st North. An ambitious 13 towers ranging from 25 to two 40 story towers.
I can’t post a picture due to space renaming if someone can post some screen shots. 132 metres tall, like having two DTK towers - wild

This is beside the shoppers and state and main, a business (Nordia I believe) would be demo’d for the site to the East.

https://www.engagewr.ca/northfield-dr-and-weber-st-n

[CP42]

[CP42]

[ac3r]

Looks like most GTA vertical suburbs, but new homes are good no matter what.

I just hope Waterloo approves this...

[nms]

Discussion of this started earlier this week in the General Suburban Updates and Rumour thread.  I don't think that the development will be stretching as far west as the corner of Weber and Northfield, but rather be centred around the intersection where Parkside Drive crosses Northfield.

[CP42]

Discussion of this started earlier this week in the General Suburban Updates and Rumour thread.  I don't think that the development will be stretching as far west as the corner of Weber and Northfield, but rather be centred around the intersection where Parkside Drive crosses Northfield.

That’s correct - it’s basically from the Shopper’s Drug Mart to the train tracks:

[KevinL]

Yeah, the existing retail would remain but the two single-story office buildings would go.

[urbd]

This project desperately needs to include the Fire Station site to provide a good pedestrian connection to the Northfield ION Station, otherwise it's going to be a horrible experience to walk from the station to the development even if it's so close.

[panamaniac]

This project desperately needs to include the Fire Station site to provide a good pedestrian connection to the Northfield ION Station, otherwise it's going to be a horrible experience to walk from the station to the development even if it's so close.

"Horrible"?   Not sure I see it.

[taylortbb]

This project desperately needs to include the Fire Station site to provide a good pedestrian connection to the Northfield ION Station, otherwise it's going to be a horrible experience to walk from the station to the development even if it's so close.

"Horrible"?   Not sure I see it.

I think it depends if it connects with the trail. If it doesn't, then the southeast corner of the site will have a big back-track walking west just to get to Northfield, only to walk east to the station. But if anyone in the site can just walk east to the trail, then south to the station, that would solve the problem.

[KevinL]

Various illustrations of the project indicate the trail, but don't clearly show connections. So they know it's there, at least, hopefully they actually link to it.

[cherrypark]

I would assume the conceptual drawings are only going to consider the basics of the changes in their land area and not involve any crossing over into other rights of way. That said, it would be very odd for the city not to ask to link that new trail.

[ijmorlan]

I would assume the conceptual drawings are only going to consider the basics of the changes in their land area and not involve any crossing over into other rights of way. That said, it would be very odd for the city not to ask to link that new trail.

If we were talking about the sidewalk in front of a new apartment building, nobody would be wondering whether the development would be connected to the existing pedestrian right-of-way.

It should be equally inconceivable that a development would not connect to an adjacent trail. Large developments should always connect to all adjacent public rights-of-way. The larger the development or building, the more inappropriate is the idea that all traffic should be routed through a single entrance.