Just speculating, but I can see the section that is currently closed remaining so for the time being. I haven't heard of anything official from the City of Kitchener as to whether or not it will stay pedestrianized. However, whether or not it stays that way when the old terminal gets redeveloped will remain to be seen. In another thread (I think the Charlie West one), I mentioned how I was in the building earlier this year taking some photos and doing some research as the architecture firm I work for has been drawing up designs and throwing around ideas and let me say...we have big (and tall...very tall) plans with lots of beautiful features and open space, but who knows whether we'll get to do anything.
Whoever ends up with the site might want Gaukel to reopen again, sadly. It would be a shame if it returned to being a street because it is not really needed for anything. Even the project I'm on the design team for has been designing with the assumption it could stay closed and act as a great pedestrian space that would be open to the public and incorporated into the complex we've been doing.
Whoever ends up with the site might want Gaukel to reopen again, sadly. It would be a shame if it returned to being a street because it is not really needed for anything. Even the project I'm on the design team for has been designing with the assumption it could stay closed and act as a great pedestrian space that would be open to the public and incorporated into the complex we've been doing.