(03-09-2018, 11:14 AM)timc Wrote:Quote:This is why we cant have nice things. If people want St. Jacobs, then please move to St. Jacobs.
Are you saying that uptown isn't nice? The building as proposed is far out of the scale with the rest of the area.
Quote:If course there is nowhere else in central Waterloo to build this kind of project. Maybe to her the "right place" would be in Kitchener?
Yeah, it does seem like it would fit better in DTK, now that you mention it.
The way things seem to be going, Uptown will be preserved as a low-rise, boutique-y central shopping district with few inhabitants, and Downtown will be a healthy mix of scale and uses. There's so much pressure from well-heeled residents near to Uptown that this seems very likely to me, for reasons that Viewfromthe42 describes.
I'd be okay with this. I think it would be bad for (the City of) Waterloo, but good for the Region. Uptown can fill a niche; Downtown can provide everything else.
Edit: The way things seem to be going, the University area will wind up a healthier mix of uses and a more important core than Uptown, too. The developments there lately are great.