02-14-2024, 02:34 PM
The city doesn't seem to want any of them to take off directly uptown, so they get derailed and die off.
Remember the tall glass office tower at 87 Regina? The really nice VanMar nearby? The towers that were going to go at The Atrium? The tower that was going to go on Dorset? There were some I know of being planned along Regina but ultimately the developers didn't want to apply, because the city is so damn hard to work with. The only major project I can think of that has been approved in the last few years (besides this one) is 203 King South but similarly it could end up meeting the same fate 87 Regina did: win approval, only to immediately die and never be heard of again.
Developers are choosing Kitchener over Waterloo because they can at least have the confidence they will win approval, sell units/lease space and run a successful building in that city.
Remember the tall glass office tower at 87 Regina? The really nice VanMar nearby? The towers that were going to go at The Atrium? The tower that was going to go on Dorset? There were some I know of being planned along Regina but ultimately the developers didn't want to apply, because the city is so damn hard to work with. The only major project I can think of that has been approved in the last few years (besides this one) is 203 King South but similarly it could end up meeting the same fate 87 Regina did: win approval, only to immediately die and never be heard of again.
Developers are choosing Kitchener over Waterloo because they can at least have the confidence they will win approval, sell units/lease space and run a successful building in that city.