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RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - highlander - 08-21-2017

(08-15-2017, 11:07 AM)GtwoK Wrote: Now, let's get some nice businesses to move into the American Hotel Block....

Just opened up the stream of the committee discussion, and saw this attachment:

   

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - Viewfromthe42 - 08-21-2017

Thank goodness it's only 6 storeys in the core of Kitchener, and only the original three on King, Kitchener and the Walper simply couldn't handle anything more galling than what you see above.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - tomh009 - 08-21-2017

It's all right with me, not as tall as I might like but still it would be good to see the block redeveloped. Now, whether and when this would actually happen ...

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - jeffster - 08-21-2017

(08-21-2017, 05:42 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Thank goodness it's only 6 storeys in the core of Kitchener, and only the original three on King, Kitchener and the Walper simply couldn't handle anything more galling than what you see above.

But what's going to happen to Caper's? Why do people never think about that? Everyone here has gotten their shots, right?

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - panamaniac - 08-21-2017

Looks like they'd just preserve the facade an put a new tower behind it?

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - tomh009 - 08-22-2017

I think the front half (or third?) of the building, facing King St E, would remain, and the back half would have a mid-rise tower, with the facade wrapping around it on Queen St N.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - kitborn - 08-22-2017

Are the higher floors residential. I see balconies.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - panamaniac - 08-22-2017

Yes, the idea or the owner/developer was always to convert the building to residential.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - panamaniac - 08-22-2017

By the way, there is a thread for the American Hotel Block development.  Posts #76 et seq should probably be moved over to that thread.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - panamaniac - 08-22-2017

The planning committee voted 8-3 on Monday in favour of the Queen St revamp.

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/7513759-kitchener-committee-ok-s-plan-to-revamp-queen-street/

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - Belmonster - 02-24-2018

The city is asking local residents to help decide how to update a couple of city parks! https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-services/Participatory-budgeting.aspx

One of the parks, Sandhills, is right near the downtown core. It seems like a difficult park to rehabilitate, given how enclosed the space is, but I'm glad to see the city trying.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - panamaniac - 02-24-2018

(02-24-2018, 09:29 AM)Belmonster Wrote: The city is asking local residents to help decide how to update a couple of city parks! https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-services/Participatory-budgeting.aspx

One of the parks, Sandhills, is right near the downtown core. It seems like a difficult park to rehabilitate, given how enclosed the space is, but I'm glad to see the city trying.

Other than upgrading the playground and adding some picnic tables, I'm not sure what I'd do with Sandhills.  I suspect that many folks Downtown may not even know the park is there.  Too bad the city didn't acquire the lots on Courtland where the new townhouses went up to give the park an entrance on that side and a bit more visibility.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - tomh009 - 02-24-2018

(02-24-2018, 10:40 AM)panamaniac Wrote:
(02-24-2018, 09:29 AM)Belmonster Wrote: The city is asking local residents to help decide how to update a couple of city parks! https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-services/Participatory-budgeting.aspx

One of the parks, Sandhills, is right near the downtown core. It seems like a difficult park to rehabilitate, given how enclosed the space is, but I'm glad to see the city trying.

Other than upgrading the playground and adding some picnic tables, I'm not sure what I'd do with Sandhills.  I suspect that many folks Downtown may not even know the park is there.  Too bad the city didn't acquire the lots on Courtland where the new townhouses went up to give the park an entrance on that side and a bit more visibility.

I think that would not have made the park that much more usable, just changing it from a "T" shape to a cross.

What they would need to do is purchase a few a adjoining houses to provide a larger central area. But even so, the park has a steep hill that limits what you can do with it.

RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - KevinL - 06-23-2018

Kitchener's Cenotaph Green is being renovated; two designs are proposed, and they are soliciting feedback.

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RE: Downtown outdoor spaces - kps - 06-23-2018

Both are than the current state.