Shops at Waterloo Town Square

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Yet, it was the City of Waterloo that built the attractive Uptown Parkade at least 15 if not 20 years before Kitchener did the same. Waterloo also relocated the Cenotaph and built its new City Hall on the old CN railway lands before Kitchener managed to build its City Hall.

The City has certain goals and must work with private landowners to achieve those goals. Would the City receive the same level of criticism if the reason that a development fell through was because the developer didn't want to include some other form of transportation infrastructure into its planned building at the City's request?

I think the City of Waterloo has done just fine so far. The challenge that the City of Waterloo has had is that several private projects did not go as planned or according to schedule (eg 144/155 Park, Barrelyards, CIGI, Waterloo Town Square 2.0). We'll now get to wait for the next round to see how things change (eg former Post Office, Spotify, Waterloo Town Square 3.0 (or is that 5.0)?