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  Thread: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
Not opposed to the concept that new developments shouldn't carry the burden of affordable housing costs, but just passing the buck to the province vs. any serious look at current home owning and asset...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 367 320,031 05-06-2024, 03:27 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Design is just the trusses with some mesh applied. (https://icreate7.esolutionsgroup.ca/11111028_RegionofWaterloo/en/living-here/resources/Documents/Current-Construction/DC_66114_Structuraldrawings.pd...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 87 38,907 05-02-2024, 01:44 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Bytor Wrote: (04-27-2024, 06:13 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (04-27-2024, 02:04 PM) -- No idea, but that doesn't imply that it was to hand over to a single large company. -- If not, then there was no reason...
   cherrypark Politics 196 7,544 04-29-2024, 09:43 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
panamaniac Wrote: (04-18-2024, 09:34 PM) -- Acitta Wrote: (04-18-2024, 08:39 PM) -- I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have b...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 79 6,669 04-19-2024, 10:04 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
If having a community climbing gym is a critical part of community, Kitchener or the Region are both quite capable of using their land and capital budgets to build a permanent home for GRR's climbing ...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 79 6,669 04-18-2024, 04:53 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Yeah Weston UPX is my hack for getting to downtown when there is no good transit at the time I need to be heading through. Park and ride from Weston skips a lot of the downtown gridlock. Just wish the...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,998 1,178,918 04-17-2024, 09:36 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-16-2024, 01:28 AM) -- I mean, 6.8% unemployment is within the normal range, and even low for the past 30 years or so. But certainly it is trending upwards. But that is for O...
   cherrypark Politics 196 7,544 04-16-2024, 02:00 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Unemployment data a short search away... (https://www.ontario.ca/page/labour-market-report-january-2024#:~:text=data%2C%20chart%204-,Unemployment%20rate%20decreased%20to%206.2%25,January%20from%205.8%...
   cherrypark Politics 196 7,544 04-15-2024, 10:58 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
I think the instinct for the countryside line protection is fine but really if this is about another TMMC scale plant coming to the region and the secondary jobs that would create as well, the product...
   cherrypark Politics 196 7,544 04-12-2024, 11:58 AM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-10-2024, 02:30 PM) -- Honest question, how difficult would it be to modify the existing bridge to improve the pedestrian and cycling experience? If we just focused on the...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 173 31,897 04-10-2024, 09:38 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
Don't let your memories remain in the past. Your reality is one hole saw and a cordless drill away.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 148 31,993 04-10-2024, 09:31 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Boring design and completely agnostic to its context. I will never reconcile the thinking of doing this kind of look on a street filled with the KW vernacular style. Doesn't have to be a revival but w...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,237 994,346 04-10-2024, 09:30 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (02-21-2024, 11:39 AM) -- Why are talentless architects addicted to putting random blotches of colour on their buildings? It makes no sense. -- If the choice is this or the monochrome p...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,237 994,346 04-10-2024, 09:05 AM
  Thread: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
Went past on the ION over the weekend. Fits the area well and more of these would be welcome.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 71 36,189 04-10-2024, 09:01 AM
  Thread: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/...
Painfully bad podium and an enormous lost opportunity to animate an area that the city is pushing to be more walkable and activated on the street. Probably also falls in the realm of architectural com...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 781 434,320 04-10-2024, 09:00 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Such are the perils of operating a business that has these kinds of expensive and complex leasehold improvements while not owning the property. I am a bit surprised GRR being evicted from one location...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 79 6,669 04-10-2024, 08:49 AM
  Thread: UW Innovation Arena
Post: RE: UW Innovation Arena
I would bet the cladding is final, though the upper area of the front facade likely still has the angular pieces to go on if the last renders are to be matched.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 49 13,517 04-05-2024, 11:50 AM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails
tomh009 Wrote: (03-24-2024, 03:00 PM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (03-23-2024, 06:15 PM) -- That's about the most recent coverage you can have on Gaukel since the demolition and closure of Gaukel were close...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 2,700 1,607,828 03-25-2024, 02:33 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
Safe to say local culture and motivated residents are the actual ingredients of there being community or not, aside the road network. Cul-de-sacs can still be reasonably well interconnected or not, th...
   cherrypark Townships 170 160,388 03-20-2024, 10:06 AM
  Thread: 490 Huron Rd | 12, 12, 20, 24 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 490 Huron Rd | 12, 12, 20, 24 fl | Proposed
Here's hoping even 50% of those rendered trees actually get planted. That section of Huron is wide open field and could desperately use some natural cover and wind breaks.
   cherrypark Suburbs 14 3,909 03-19-2024, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Lebronj23 Wrote: (02-17-2024, 08:19 PM) -- This is going to be the 3rd tallest tower in Kitchener after TEK tops out, and after DTK. This is 115m tall -- Plus I assume around 6-10m of topographic a...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,674 991,734 03-14-2024, 09:34 AM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Spoken like someone who has never needed to get N-S in Kitchener on anything other than a car or train... While I personally think making Westmount and Homer Watson highway crossings better was availa...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 87 38,907 03-08-2024, 01:29 PM
  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 | 2 & 8 fl...
ijmorlan Wrote: (03-06-2024, 06:37 PM) -- cherrypark Wrote: (03-06-2024, 08:15 AM) -- Trivial issue but folks can we please cool it with the bike shape bike racks. -- Maybe we should have Hummer-s...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 224 120,495 03-07-2024, 12:21 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 | 2 & 8 fl...
Trivial issue but folks can we please cool it with the bike shape bike racks.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 224 120,495 03-06-2024, 08:15 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Fun exercise: do a business case for vehicle users paying the full value per kilometer of their road use and expansion. Imagine the furor if Doug said the 413 was doing to be tolled to pay for upk...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,998 1,178,918 02-23-2024, 11:43 AM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region
ac3r Wrote: (02-22-2024, 07:27 PM) -- Consumers will want what they want and the market reacts. It's not advertisers calling the shots, it's us. The best thing auto manufacturers can do now is pivot ...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,176,875 02-23-2024, 11:30 AM

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