General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

[jmrappolt]

Thanks! :-) No renders or pictures on the page but the project seems to be going up pretty quickly so I guess I'll just see progress as I drive by.

[KaiserWilhelmsBust]

Hmm... I saw a Zehr Group sign on the fencing so I assumed they were the developers. Took a look on their website and couldn't find mention of it. I assumed there would be a thread for it here but also no luck.

Zehr is the developer of the project and it's a new rental project that they're doing, the project is called "STRIDE union", it's the first project in Zehr's new "STRIDE" rental buildings. It seems at least from reading on their website that it's just typical purpose built rentals.

Here's a link to their website about it: https://www.zehrgroup.ca/stride

It definitely just is typical purpose built renderings, but with the self-congratulatory, egotistical branding that comes with a rich family doing anything!

[tomh009]

Hmm... I saw a Zehr Group sign on the fencing so I assumed they were the developers. Took a look on their website and couldn't find mention of it. I assumed there would be a thread for it here but also no luck.

Zehr is the developer of the project and it's a new rental project that they're doing, the project is called "STRIDE union", it's the first project in Zehr's new "STRIDE" rental buildings. It seems at least from reading on their website that it's just typical purpose built rentals.

Here's a link to their website about it: https://www.zehrgroup.ca/stride

More purpose-built rental apartments is a good thing.

[jmrappolt]

Absolutely! It's in a great location and looks half decent as well. Red "brick" precast mostly, which I appreciate instead of the current monochrome fad. Five or so stories. I'll try to snap a few pics if I go by again.

[Acitta]

Waterloo may add a dozen more towers as city council ponders 4,500 more dwellings at four locations

Jeff Outhit seems to be trying to scare people by saying that Waterloo is going to become "more crowded".

[ac3r]

Outhit needs to F off already.

[Lebronj23]

3/4th if these are from the Drewlo Development which won’t be started for 5 years and not finished for 30

[danbrotherston]

Waterloo may add a dozen more towers as city council ponders 4,500 more dwellings at four locations

Jeff Outhit seems to be trying to scare people by saying that Waterloo is going to become "more crowded".

Outhit has a long and strongly established track record of highly biased reporting (or worse, he's previously outright lied by omission). He clearly hates cities, density, and transit, and uses his position as a journalist to push an agenda against these things. Or to put it another way...he's a garbage journalist and it's a real shame he gets the platform he has.

Sadly, the majority of the readership of the record probably doesn't know or care, and possible they are even being pandered too by his scaremongering.

[ac3r]

Very likely being pandered to. Does anyone really read The Record anymore, especially for opinion pieces? It's okay for some local news stories but for the most part it's a useless rag geared towards certain demographics (old, conservative, anti-progress).

[panamaniac]

Waterloo may add a dozen more towers as city council ponders 4,500 more dwellings at four locations

Jeff Outhit seems to be trying to scare people by saying that Waterloo is going to become "more crowded".

Outhit has a long and strongly established track record of highly biased reporting (or worse, he's previously outright lied by omission). He clearly hates cities, density, and transit, and uses his position as a journalist to push an agenda against these things. Or to put it another way...he's a garbage journalist and it's a real shame he gets the platform he has.

Sadly, the majority of the readership of the record probably doesn't know or care, and possible they are even being pandered too by his scaremongering.

One chuckles at the idea that Waterloo is "crowded" (although Outhit does say Region's "most crowded", which is technically true).

[bravado]

I find it very funny that Outhit somehow sees all the students this time around when he is diagnosing density, but somehow completely missed them when complaining about the very un-crowded public transit.

[ac3r]

Small update for Waterloo. Putting it in the general thread because it's nothing special.

There's a 6 floor apartment building proposed for 309 Hawthorn Street. 6 floors, 55 units for a total of 80 bedrooms with 21 vehicle parking spaces and 38 bicycle parking spaces.

[urbd]

Small update for Waterloo. Putting it in the general thread because it's nothing special.

There's a 6 floor apartment building proposed for 309 Hawthorn Street. 6 floors, 55 units for a total of 80 bedrooms with 21 vehicle parking spaces and 38 bicycle parking spaces.

Render or it didn't happen.

Hawthorn Street? where even is that.

[urbd]

Small update for Waterloo. Putting it in the general thread because it's nothing special.

There's a 6 floor apartment building proposed for 309 Hawthorn Street. 6 floors, 55 units for a total of 80 bedrooms with 21 vehicle parking spaces and 38 bicycle parking spaces.

Render or it didn't happen.

Hawthorn Street? where even is that.

Ps. why do you call your own projects nothing special?

[ac3r]

Small update for Waterloo. Putting it in the general thread because it's nothing special.

There's a 6 floor apartment building proposed for 309 Hawthorn Street. 6 floors, 55 units for a total of 80 bedrooms with 21 vehicle parking spaces and 38 bicycle parking spaces.

Render or it didn't happen.

Hawthorn Street? where even is that.

Ps. why do you call your own projects nothing special?

Oh this is not a project I'm involved in if you are implying that. I don't really do work in Waterloo Region anymore. The last thing I was involved in fell through and I said forget it...not wasting my talents or time with local projects anymore. Mostly, this is just such a modest building I was too lazy to make a thread for it haha.

Hawthorn ist a small dead-end street behind Waterloo Collegiate Institute. It's in the Northdale neighbourhood off of Hickory.

You can grab the usual proposal documents here, though there isn't much to learn besides what was posted: https://www.waterloo.ca/en/government/zo...rn-309-311