11-18-2014, 04:43 PM
(11-18-2014, 01:49 PM)jgsz Wrote: If I had to pick a side it would be Momentum.
Momentum has shown what it can do and in a timely fashion. Momentum is planning to build One Hundred. It is building One Victoria. It has built the Red Condominium, FortyTwo, and the BPR Lofts.
So far as I know (and I could be really wrong here), Owen and the Lakeshore Group have not done anything in the Region of Waterloo. Their first(?) foray into this region is to go to the OMB to demand changes to One Hundred. That just doesn't look good. Perhaps if they showed some renders of what they would like to build I could warm up to their proposal(s). As it is, are we supposed to be sympathetic to what they may or may not be able to do?
If Owen and the Lakeshore Group want to intensify development along the LRT I wish them well. But please show me what you have in mind, other than an OMB challenge.
By the way, I want to welcome Owen to WRC.
Well...the fellow has owned these properties and rented them out, it sounds like for some time, and renovated them long before big development money came to downtown Kitchener. So that's not nothing.
I'm usually among the first to dismiss NIMBY types who think that nothing should ever change in a neighbourhood by virtue of the fact that they live there. That's not the case here, and I personally didn't have most of the facts at first, so I thought that was what we were dealing with- the articles in the Record and info elsewhere led me to believe that was the issue. Owen, thanks for posting on here to give us a fuller perspective.
If the issue is that the One Hundred project as proposed will impact the future development opportunities on a piece of adjacent land, the adjacent landowner should obviously be concerned about the value of his property, and we should be concerned about the fact that it will one day limit the intensification we desire. There don't necessarily need to be renders or plans to develop in the near-term- the possibility of development should be retained.