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  Thread: 15 Church St | 6 fl | U/C
Post: 15 Church St | 6 fl | U/C
15 Church Street - Affordable Housing Building https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/639237bed1df851099694333/67f1c556-b6d7-49f6-9118-83335476c590/Screenshot+2023-05-31+at+1.53.22+PM.png?fo...
   JJTL Urban Areas 10 1,325 09-18-2023, 12:53 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
New affordable housing building coming to downtown Kitchener, behind Historic St. Paul's Lutheran Church. 6 story building, with 57 units planned. I can confirm the address will be 15 Church Street. ...
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 09-08-2023, 04:56 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Good morning, I see there is a demo crew out at the corner of Queen and Joseph taking down the old pink house. I believe the address is 178 Queen St. S. Any ideas on what's potentially going in her...
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 02-27-2023, 12:53 PM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
jeffster Wrote: (06-24-2020, 06:05 PM) -- JJTL Wrote: (06-24-2020, 02:46 PM) -- Interestingly, they were unloading truckloads of drywall into the building this morning when I drove by. -- That's o...
   JJTL Urban Areas 1,392 591,263 06-25-2020, 10:07 AM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
Interestingly, they were unloading truckloads of drywall into the building this morning when I drove by.
   JJTL Urban Areas 1,392 591,263 06-24-2020, 02:46 PM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
On my way home last night just before 6pm, emergency crews had Frederick street blocked off from Duke to Weber. There were at least a dozen fire trucks and ambulances on site right at the DTK construc...
   JJTL Urban Areas 1,392 591,263 06-10-2020, 10:02 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-09-2020, 12:44 PM) -- KevinL Wrote: (02-09-2020, 12:13 PM) -- I believe churches and schools are both zoned 'institutional', so there's no need for a review of this. Wou...
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 02-10-2020, 10:59 AM
  Thread: The Breithaupt Block Phase III | 11 fl | U/C
Post: RE: The Breithaupt Block Phase III | 10 fl | U/C
Exciting news on all the Google expansion, both at King Centre and Breithaupt. I haven't been over by the Breithaupt Block in awhile, does anyone know what the current construction progress is on Phas...
   JJTL Urban Areas 633 298,302 02-07-2020, 01:50 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (11-20-2019, 09:46 AM) -- On top of all the other considerations, do we really need to prosecute somebody who just put themselves in hospital with their carelessness, without endanger...
   JJTL Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,611,523 11-20-2019, 01:05 PM
  Thread: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Drewlo Downtown project | 22 & 18 fl | U/C
Updated design is much better. I see 14 & 18 story towers atop a 5 story podium. So have the overall heights increased to 23 & 19?
   JJTL Urban Areas 781 435,494 08-08-2019, 03:25 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
embe Wrote: (06-13-2019, 09:01 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (06-13-2019, 02:54 PM) -- ...CBC is reporting WRPS statement that it was indeed an illegal U-Turn... -- I've seen more U-turns in the las...
   JJTL Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,611,523 06-14-2019, 11:22 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
A significant assembly of scaffolding has gone up on the Queen Street facade of the Walper, anybody know whats being done?
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 04-30-2019, 10:04 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9298756-cambridge-council-oks-light-rail-route-through-preston-and-across-speed-river/ Cambridge City Council has approved the latest proposed route for Phase 2, ...
   JJTL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 707,722 04-24-2019, 09:49 AM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
Spokes Wrote: (04-04-2019, 09:11 AM) -- Are there floor plans floating around?  That should help confirm the location of the elevator. -- http://www.dtkcondos.ca/dtk-condos-floor-plans/ (http://www...
   JJTL Urban Areas 1,392 591,263 04-04-2019, 11:22 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Article in the Record today about the Walper Barbershop. https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9266131-weeks-left-for-historic-walper-hotel-barbershop-in-kitchener/
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 04-03-2019, 11:16 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
panamaniac Wrote: (04-02-2019, 10:44 AM) -- JJTL Wrote: (04-02-2019, 10:36 AM) -- Does anyone know if it is just the Walper Barbershop impacted, or other businesses too? I was just thinking of the W...
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 04-02-2019, 12:37 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Does anyone know if it is just the Walper Barbershop impacted, or other businesses too? I was just thinking of the Walper Tobacco Shop as well, I believe it is the oldest Tobacco shop in Canada (circa...
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 04-02-2019, 10:36 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
GtwoK Wrote: (03-30-2019, 03:22 PM) -- Was just getting my haircut at the Walper Barber Shop and they told me that as of yesterday, they're being forced out. They've been there since 1850, but Perime...
   JJTL Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,074 04-01-2019, 09:53 AM
  Thread: DTK - King Street Summer Closure To Traffic
Post: RE: DTK - King Street Summer Closure To Traffic
Working downtown for the past few years now, I have been a regular attendee to summer events where they close King St temporarily (King St Cruise Night, Food Trucks, Oktoberfest, Blues Fest, etc.) and...
   JJTL Urban Design 20 8,679 03-05-2019, 02:54 PM
  Thread: DTK - King Street Summer Closure To Traffic
Post: RE: DTK - King Street Summer Closure To Traffic
That 16th Street Mall in Denver is awesome! I was considering whether the businesses (BIA) would be resistant or if they would see it as a positive change. Although you lose vehicle traffic during ...
   JJTL Urban Design 20 8,679 03-04-2019, 02:32 PM
  Thread: DTK - King Street Summer Closure To Traffic
Post: DTK - King Street Summer Closure To Traffic
With the great idea and positive discussion about the Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade, there has also been discussion about closing King Street to vehicle traffic between Victoria and Cedar. Mike F...
   JJTL Urban Design 20 8,679 03-04-2019, 12:40 PM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
robdrimmie Wrote: (02-28-2019, 02:00 PM) -- We talked about Hall's lane a bit in the conversation here about this idea (I can't find it though, I'm really bad at searching here). There's other parkin...
   JJTL Urban Design 69 31,519 02-28-2019, 07:00 PM
  Thread: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
Post: RE: Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade
This would be awesome! What a great alignment from City Hall/King Street to Victoria Park. As per the article, once the bus terminal moves you could have a complete pedestrian promenade to the park. O...
   JJTL Urban Design 69 31,519 02-28-2019, 01:04 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Did anyone catch the interview with Tom Galloway that Brian Bourke did on 570News this afternoon? I jumped in the car and Brian was joking about running a competition for which day in April that Ion w...
   JJTL Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,611,523 01-30-2019, 05:10 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Canard Wrote: (01-17-2019, 06:40 PM) -- It seems as though all of the LRV's go back to the OMSF for some reason about 4 or 5pm, then come out for a few hours after that.  I typically flip on the radi...
   JJTL Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,611,523 01-18-2019, 01:14 PM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
Momo26 Wrote: (12-21-2018, 10:38 AM) -- Being 39 floors now, anyone have an official # of units count? How many units per floor? -- I recall the articles at the time the original 33 story building ...
   JJTL Urban Areas 1,392 591,263 12-21-2018, 01:37 PM

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