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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

danbrotherston Wrote: (04-26-2024, 10:48 AM) -- SF22 Wrote: (04-26-2024, 10:14 AM) -- I haven't been able to find an actual map of where the old Route 91 actually went - I never used this one, as a ...
  midriser Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,268,496 04-27-2024, 01:20 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

ac3r Wrote: (05-20-2022, 01:21 PM) -- Ah well that's news to me haha. I thought they only had offices here, but it looks like they lease a few floors at the Richmond-Adelaide Centre. I guess they han...
  midriser Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,649,419 05-22-2022, 08:01 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub

danbrotherston Wrote: (05-21-2021, 07:20 AM) -- So Kippling GO was constructed for 73 million. It includes an indoor area (admittedly less grand than here) along with an utterly massive parking ga...
  midriser Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,033,385 06-26-2021, 10:28 PM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C

Trying to reserve judgment as well, but so far this is shaping up to be just a taller version of a Northdale style student housing complex, with lots of cheap spandrel and mostly unsuccessful applicat...
  midriser Urban Areas 1,392 595,446 09-14-2020, 12:56 PM
  Thread: One Young (née Mayfair Hotel) | 5 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Mayfair Hotel project | 5 fl | U/C

panamaniac Wrote: (07-23-2020, 10:56 AM) -- Best yet!  Do you ever share your pics on SSP Canada?  This one merits wider attention, imho, although it would need a bit of explaining. -- I made a pos...
  midriser Urban Areas 733 534,990 07-24-2020, 11:59 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

tomh009 Wrote: (07-03-2020, 12:29 PM) -- 650/656/664 King St E (a single-storey commercial building at the corner of King St E and Pandora Ave N, plus two adjoining single-family homes) have demoliti...
  midriser Urban Areas 5,589 4,005,913 07-03-2020, 05:38 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

ert86 Wrote: (06-17-2020, 08:08 AM) -- Was there am accident that caused a backup up or were they testing 8min headways yesterday. I saw one downtown go by south with another due in 8, I barely misse...
  midriser Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,649,419 06-17-2020, 10:02 AM
  Thread: Circa 1877 (née Brick Brewery) | 20 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Circa 1877 - Brick Brewery Redevelopment | 20f...

If they finished painting it to match the renders it would be a lot better. Still a large hulking mass with a mostly blank wall over the parking(?) podium, but better. It looks like the easy to acc...
  midriser Urban Areas 512 423,119 05-20-2020, 03:20 PM
  Thread: The Scott (59-65 Weber E) | 11 fl | Complete
Post: RE: 59-65 Weber St E & 51-59 Scott St | 11 fl | U/...

taylortbb Wrote: (05-12-2020, 12:09 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (05-12-2020, 11:28 AM) -- The tile is being painted ... I was rather surprised by this. -- I'm surprised too, I had just assumed they'd ca...
  midriser Urban Areas 190 72,673 05-12-2020, 05:10 PM
  Thread: One Young (née Mayfair Hotel) | 5 fl | Complete
Post: RE: Mayfair Hotel project | 6 fl | U/C

@Spokes, can the title of this thread be changed? It's a bit confusing how it says six floors, but as panamaniac said it looks like it will actually only be five. The rendering shows four full floors ...
  midriser Urban Areas 733 534,990 05-01-2020, 04:18 PM
  Thread: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

Acitta Wrote: (03-08-2020, 12:41 PM) -- Development would put eight-storey building ‘at the doorstep’ of uptown Waterloo (https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9879419-development-would-put-eight-stor...
  midriser Urban Areas 71 36,372 03-09-2020, 09:51 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

DK519 Wrote: (02-21-2020, 09:48 AM) -- In regards to 650-664 King E., they're going to demo the house in the middle and make it parking. I believe one building will be dental and the other one some o...
  midriser Urban Areas 5,589 4,005,913 02-21-2020, 11:28 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Canard Wrote: (10-16-2016, 08:50 AM) -- That 12 km/h sign is going to drive my OCD nuts every time I pass by it.  It's because of the curves (C12-3 and C12-4) immediately prior to it, but still... co...
  midriser Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,649,419 10-16-2016, 07:43 PM
  Thread: Waterloo Costco
Post: RE: Waterloo Costco

curiouschair Wrote: (05-12-2016, 11:08 AM) -- The senior citzens home seems quite a bit taller than depicted in that graphic. -- The rendering notmyfriends posted is from an earlier iteration of th...
  midriser Retail 103 142,104 05-12-2016, 11:21 PM

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