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  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
This x1000.
   REnerd Urban Areas 402 89,354 03-28-2022, 08:16 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Tear it all up and demolish the building.  Plant trees and grass. A bigger Victoria Park will never be looked back on as a mistake.  This is a one time opportunity to make an amazing central park.
   REnerd Urban Areas 402 89,354 03-21-2022, 11:40 AM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
There is a great park in Porto where the city put a number of floors of parking UNDER the park. Maybe the city could demolish one of the above ground parking garages and put the parking under the n...
   REnerd Urban Areas 402 89,354 01-12-2022, 03:46 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Hope it was on hold for a total redesign as that thing is UG-Lee.
   REnerd Urban Areas 1,237 994,569 01-12-2022, 03:42 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
I think that putting condos here would be a giant missed opportunity.  Where else will the city get an opportunity to do a major city building exercise?  There are lots of other parking lots or lands ...
   REnerd Urban Areas 402 89,354 01-10-2022, 12:01 PM
  Thread: 30-40 Margaret Ave | 3 fl townhouses | Planned
Post: RE: Avenue M | 6 + 6 fl | Cancelled
Spokes Wrote: (09-14-2020, 12:31 PM) -- I wonder if Activa will just sit on it and try again with a new name in a year or so -- I suspect this has nothing to do with COVID and more about the projec...
   REnerd Urban Areas 251 96,233 09-14-2020, 02:51 PM
  Thread: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
It would be great to see Victoria St urbanized from say Margaret to Strange. Big wide sidewalk, bike lane either direction, one lane of traffic each way with turning lanes.
   REnerd Urban Areas 497 215,506 08-31-2020, 01:15 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
I read on reddit that both coffee shops did an overnight move and left the shops vacant with everything removed.  The landlords are probably securing after it was left empty of everything. Apparent...
   REnerd Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,310 2,044,234 08-12-2020, 10:37 AM
  Thread: One Young (née Mayfair Hotel) | 5 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Mayfair Hotel project | 5 fl | U/C
Wow.  I've been waiting to see this.   I think this will also look interesting back lit at night and the strength of that image will really vary on the time of day and viewing.   Easily the most...
   REnerd Urban Areas 733 533,611 06-18-2020, 01:48 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Amazing to see in the context of today (pandemic days) that the city designers choose to allocate space to a turning lane instead of a sidewalk.  Sidewalk at Charles has to be less than a metre betwee...
   REnerd Urban Areas 5,589 3,988,837 06-17-2020, 07:32 AM
  Thread: Circa 1877 (née Brick Brewery) | 20 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Circa 1877 - Brick Brewery Redevelopment | 20f...
Looks like every other HIP project.  Look at this and then look at the render for the project uptown at the old post office.  Imagine how that will end up. Hope the city steps up and demands better...
   REnerd Urban Areas 512 421,638 06-08-2020, 08:57 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
My question on the survey was:  What about bikes? In the imagery there seems to be bikes rendered into the vehicle lanes on Victoria.  Has there been no thought put into integrating bike lanes and ...
   REnerd Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,030,423 01-30-2020, 08:36 AM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
I vote for an expansion of Victoria Park into the city.   There is lots of other spaces available for more condo towers, it would be a shame to lose the opportunity to make Vitoria Park an even more i...
   REnerd Urban Areas 402 89,354 05-06-2019, 10:08 AM
  Thread: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 20m | 5 ...
That surveyor sign has been there for years.
   REnerd Urban Areas 224 120,542 03-25-2019, 03:17 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Will this design be part of some sort of architecture competition? Would something like this possibly draw (inter)national attention? Who is the dream starchitect/architect - surely there are so...
   REnerd Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,030,423 03-21-2019, 08:52 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Spokes Wrote: (03-20-2019, 06:52 AM) -- It'll be interesting to see what effect this has on the final design of the hub when it's all said and done.  I'm thinking less grand than I originally envisio...
   REnerd Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,030,423 03-20-2019, 07:15 AM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
I love this idea - extending Victoria Park into the city center would be so great. Maybe next step is to have the city consider forgoing the future re-development of the charles street terminal and...
   REnerd Urban Design 69 31,518 03-01-2019, 04:41 PM
  Thread: 165 King St W | 3 fl | Completed
Post: RE: 165 King West | 3 fl | U/C
I nominate this for two awards: 1)  Most beautiful facade 2)  Slowest development
   REnerd Urban Areas 140 72,125 01-17-2019, 09:15 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
What about the huge piece of land the city (or region) owns south (behind) the school of pharmacy?  Surely that could be a large parking resource tucked out of sight and a short 50-100m walk to the st...
   REnerd Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,030,423 11-22-2018, 10:46 AM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
tomh009 Wrote: (11-20-2018, 11:43 PM) -- KevinL Wrote: (11-20-2018, 08:36 PM) -- If parking is seen as a high priority, perhaps a structure could be built on the Kaufman Lofts' surface lot and they ...
   REnerd Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,030,423 11-21-2018, 06:14 PM
  Thread: The Maverick (64 Margaret/217-229 Victoria N | 6 fl | completed
Post: RE: 64 Margaret Ave and 217/229 Victoria St N | 6 ...
Looks like it belongs in the student zone between Waterloo and Laurier.
   REnerd Urban Areas 75 51,068 11-12-2018, 06:42 PM
  Thread: The Breithaupt Block Phase III | 11 fl | U/C
Post: RE: The Breithaupt Block Phase III | 12 fl | Propo...
I wonder why they didn't design two shorter buildings more in line with the original buildings across the street.  They could have put 3-4 stories on top of the parking garage and taken the tower down...
   REnerd Urban Areas 633 298,286 04-08-2018, 05:04 PM
  Thread: Strata | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 70 King St N | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed
Viewfromthe42 Wrote: (03-15-2018, 01:10 PM) -- Not sure I'd agree. Bridgeport Road is incredibly constraining, pedestrial hostile. King street is also pretty underwhelming for the gateway corner of U...
   REnerd Urban Areas 223 118,677 03-15-2018, 03:44 PM
  Thread: Strata | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 70 King St N | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed
timc Wrote: (03-09-2018, 11:14 AM) -- Quote: -- This is why we cant have nice things. If people want St. Jacobs, then please move to St. Jacobs. -- Are you saying that uptown isn't nice? The bu...
   REnerd Urban Areas 223 118,677 03-09-2018, 11:33 AM
  Thread: Strata | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 70 King St N | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed
timc Wrote: (03-08-2018, 03:54 PM) -- I kind of agree with the concerns. The heritage of King Street in uptown Waterloo is short, brick buildings, many of them factories. Plopping an 11 storey to...
   REnerd Urban Areas 223 118,677 03-08-2018, 06:07 PM
  Thread: Urban parks
Post: RE: Urban parks
Here is my dream park / city building idea: 1) City buys Market Square from its new owners (Europro) in exchange for development credits or waiver of property taxes on other properties (etc etc). ...
   REnerd Urban Areas 40 24,369 01-31-2018, 06:13 PM

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