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RE: General Sports and Recreation News - panamaniac - 07-25-2016
Bringing out my magic development wand (
), I think I would take the old Uniroyal plant and parking lot for an expansion of Uniroyal-Goodrich park. Perhaps Duke Park could be sold off for housing to defray costs (now THAT would set off a s-storm!).
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - MidTowner - 07-25-2016
Thanks a lot, panamaniac. I was prepared to be grateful for whatever was done at Uniroyal-Goodrich Park. Now I’m going to be wishing you were in charge and the park could be ten times bigger.
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - panamaniac - 07-25-2016
(07-25-2016, 12:46 PM)MidTowner Wrote: Thanks a lot, panamaniac. I was prepared to be grateful for whatever was done at Uniroyal-Goodrich Park. Now I’m going to be wishing you were in charge and the park could be ten times bigger.
You should hear my plans for Rockway Golf Course!
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - MidTowner - 08-04-2016
(07-25-2016, 07:07 AM)rangersfan Wrote: Uniroyal-Goodrich Park is poised for some improvements :
http://m.therecord.com/news-story/6781284-secluded-kitchener-park-set-for-a-facelift
Did anyone attend the meeting on this at Breithaupt Centre last night? I’ll be curious to see what the City’s different options are.
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - rangersfan - 08-10-2016
UW designed a part that could be used by Canadian Olympic cyclists.
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=927229
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - rangersfan - 08-10-2016
Elmira Councillors are looking into building a splash pad for the community a preferred site has been selected.
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/elmira-is-one-step-closer-to-getting-a-brand-new-splash-pad-1.3022392
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - jamincan - 08-10-2016
(08-10-2016, 05:47 AM)rangersfan Wrote: UW designed a part that could be used by Canadian Olympic cyclists.
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=927229
Here's a version of the article with text: http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/in-rio-canada-s-olympic-cyclists-testing-uw-developed-bracket-1.3021774
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - rangersfan - 08-13-2016
Rare reserve in Cambridge could see some regional funding
Definitely a beautiful place to bike along.
http://m.therecord.com/news-story/6807796-region-endorses-funding-for-rare-reserve
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - rangersfan - 08-24-2016
Waterloo looking to potentially consolidate three recreational facilities and expand the Waterloo Memorial Recreational Complex.
This could potentially open up a very prime piece of real estate on King.
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/waterloo-adult-centres-could-close-in-favour-of-rec-complex-expansion-1.3040264
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - Viewfromthe42 - 08-24-2016
The decision to make the Catalina townhomes looks poorer and poorer every development.
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - schooner77 - 08-24-2016
The funeral home being sold, the Brick property being developed and now the Adult Rec Centre possibly being sold off for future development, that's certainly going to be a a high density area.
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - Viewfromthe42 - 08-24-2016
Tell that to Catalina and the retirement home. Hadn't heard about the funeral home though, are you sure you aren't mixing up the sale of the funeral home in Kitchener near Wellington?
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - schooner77 - 08-24-2016
No, I have chatted with three different people about the Erb & Good location. I was curious, as there was a crew on site drilling for soil samples for almost a week. I started asking some people around the Uptown area and they had said that the Funeral home had been sold for quite a hefty price.
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - nms - 08-26-2016
I'd wait to see about any changes to Erb & Good. As a designated heritage building that won awards for its adaptation, and as one of the few independent funeral homes left, I would be surprised that a sale went through, and if it did, that it has so far remained below the radar. Time will tell.
RE: General Sports and Recreation News - nms - 08-29-2016
(08-24-2016, 09:07 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: The decision to make the Catalina townhomes looks poorer and poorer every development.
With the view of hindsight, perhaps, but consider when the Catalina townhomes were built (circa late 1990s). What did Waterloo (and Uptown Waterloo in particular) look like?
- Major employers shutting down (Labatt's, Seagrams, plus the industrial parts that are now where the Barrelyards are).
- Mutual Life Insurance was preparing itself for a takeover with no guarantee that the end result would see any presence remain here
- Local software companies were still generally small potatoes on the national or international scale. (despite being around since 1984, RIM had only just released its first "Blackberry" in 1999)
- Alexandra Public School was either shut down or in the process of being closed
- Kitchener was showing no signs of its downtown renaissance, despite many attempts
- Waterloo was struggling to define what to do with Waterloo Town Square
- Despite being in a dusty master plan, any kind of transit intensification was still a long way off (GRT was only formed in 2000).
What bank would finance a project of the scale of even the 42 in Waterloo in 2000? Likely none.
But I digress, it will be interesting to see how Waterloo reshapes its recreational landscape. Hopefully they can figure out how to retain some public recreational space in the Uptown core near an LRT stop. When the ARC property comes up for redevelopment, I think that it would be appropriate to advocate for "ground-floor public space", with some floors of commercial on top of that and residential above that. The people in this growing area will still need access to public amenities. Consolidating everything to a transit black hole like the WRMC doesn't help an aging population.