12-14-2023, 06:12 PM
(12-12-2023, 10:03 PM)nms Wrote: Just be glad that the University made space for the terminal within the campus envelope and did not insist on something along Phillip St instead (see the Laurier example).
There is nothing about the space that couldn't prevent a future building from being integrated into the terminal in some form. I suspect in this case that the University didn't have anything immediately on their books for a new building in that area in the timeline that the Region was looking for.
The concepts in the University's master plan featured buildings going up to the edges of the engineering area on the east side of the tracks. The northern one would have that kind of building-platform integration. But the new buildings in that site (E6 and E7) don't at all resemble the concepts published, so who knows.