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General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
They need something like that. Good for them.
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Interview with Faisal Susiwla who owns the former site of the Kress Hotel.

Preston Springs and The Kress Hotel
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No external audit of Preston Springs demo, but Cambridge council supports more cash for heritage grants: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener...-1.5934570
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Cambridge council endorses MZO request to build 1.7 million sq. ft. distribution centre

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...ridge.html

Anyone know more details about this?
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Anyone know the likely client for this 'distribution'? I know Amazon took over an existing warehouse in the Maple Grove area recently, but this might be more purpose-built if it's for them.
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Broccolini has built a lot of warehouses for different clients, but given the size of this I'd guess it's for Amazon? They've built quite a few for them. My only other guess would be Canadian Tire or Ikea, who they've also worked with on this scale.
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(04-07-2021, 12:37 PM)LesPio Wrote: Cambridge council endorses MZO request to build 1.7 million sq. ft. distribution centre

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...ridge.html

Anyone know more details about this?

How big was the Cambridge Loblaw's warehouse that just closed? I did a quick search but didn't find anything. Maybe the tenant for this one could have just moved into that one?
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The Loblaws distribution centre is closed?
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(04-07-2021, 06:31 PM)jamincan Wrote: The Loblaws distribution centre is closed?

The transportation operation from there closed, but the warehouse is still open.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/loblaw-set-...-1.5254554
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Oh, I thought those articles a couple months ago meant they were closing the warehouse when they let 150 people go.
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Hello, been away for some months.
I have word theres several large projects on the way in cambridge.
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Cambridge resident fears massive development at historic Hespeler site: https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story...eler-site/

Normally I'd shoot down NIMBYs but concerns over traffic are valid in this region, though I'm not sure how many cars a mere 270 units would truly add to the neighbourhood considering how many cars are already on the streets.
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(04-22-2021, 08:50 AM)ac3r Wrote: Cambridge resident fears massive development at historic Hespeler site: https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story...eler-site/

Normally I'd shoot down NIMBYs but concerns over traffic are valid in this region, though I'm not sure how many cars a mere 270 units would truly add to the neighbourhood considering how many cars are already on the streets.

Not enough to be terribly concerned, I suspect.
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Great idea for a project. This area is beautiful, backing directly onto the Speed River. Downtown Hespeler would benefit immensely from more residences. Time to shake the frost off this sleepy old village! Shame the LRT doesn't approach Hespeler though, that would have squelched some of the traffic concerns. Not that the villagers would have wanted that either.
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(04-22-2021, 08:50 AM)ac3r Wrote: Cambridge resident fears massive development at historic Hespeler site: https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story...eler-site/

Normally I'd shoot down NIMBYs but concerns over traffic are valid in this region, though I'm not sure how many cars a mere 270 units would truly add to the neighbourhood considering how many cars are already on the streets.

Certainly fewer than 540 (two per unit), and even 540 wouldn't really be a noticeable traffic generator...most small two lane collector roads carry an order of magnitude more. Major arterials can carry two orders of magnitude more. So we're looking at 2-20% increase at the maximum.  And that's not considering that a factory probably already generated some traffic.

And, I can pretty much guarantee you that this development will induce fewer cars than a more sprawling development. Those people are coming, the choice is whether we force them to drive or not.
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