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RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - tomh009 - 02-04-2016
Without having seen any details, the concept looks good. The neighbouring residents might be less happy about the new tall neighbour though.
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - MidTowner - 02-04-2016
It's Sunlife on two sides, retail across the street on John (maybe they would be considered about shading, but I can't see why, and less so than homeowners might anyway), retail and Cortes across the street on King. Not the same situation with the Cortes and the single-family homes just across Dodd's Lane.
I think it's a pretty good site for some height from the perspective of likely opposition. I also think John and King is a logical intersection for a few taller buildings.
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - GtwoK - 02-04-2016
How new is that, though? It doesn't even look like it includes Ion, which means it could have just been a concept from 5 years ago rather than an up and coming project
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - notmyfriends - 02-04-2016
(02-04-2016, 10:14 AM)MidTowner Wrote: That's new to me. Something there would be very exciting... There is a distinct lot about an acre and a quarter on that corner of King and John, and a separate home behind it on John. Whether Sunlife has purchased it at some point, I don't know.
I think they owned them, or I thought so at one point. In any event, they don't own them for sure now, as they sold that whole property to Concert Real Estate a year ago or so. http://www.concertproperties.com/
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - rangersfan - 02-04-2016
Jcnb do you have anymore details?
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - Pheidippides - 02-04-2016
Same image came up on this Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/wilsoncodesign
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - rangersfan - 02-04-2016
That Twitter feed has some interesting flashes of information like this in progress render:
https://mobile.twitter.com/WilsonCoDesign/status/674046655046541312/photo/1
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - rangersfan - 02-04-2016
That render at King and John, reminds me of City Centre.
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - Spokes - 02-05-2016
Is it just me or does it look like those stairs are fronting King St? Or am I looking at it wrong.
Poor street interaction?
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - MidTowner - 02-05-2016
No, you're right. Kind of weird- is there a grade on King there? I can't remember.
That would be poor street interaction. This render may not be very reflective of an eventual proposal, though.
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - Spokes - 02-06-2016
I dont remember there being any grade issues there. Not that I can think of at least.
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - tomh009 - 02-12-2016
Another Terry Good building condemned as uninhabitable. This time, it's 154 Erb St E.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6274984-waterloo-takes-action-against-landlord-terry-good/
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - GtwoK - 02-12-2016
Heh. Was just talking with a girl the other day about the hellish apartment her and her roommates were living in last year. Couldn't reach the landlord after a few months, so they lived rent-free. Squatters in the unlocked basement. Mould everywhere. Just generally a terrible place to be. I'm just now making the connection that it's this building from Terry Good.
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - notmyfriends - 02-12-2016
Did a google map view to see where exactly this place was, and in the street view there's a cop parked out front. Seems about right.
RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - Lens - 02-12-2016
Potential development coming to Erb st West near Uptown... https://www.realtor.ca/Commercial/Vacant-Land/16408730/146-154-Erb-Street-W-Waterloo-Ontario-N2L1V1