Population and Housing

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Speaking of stacked townhouses, Steeves & Rozema is advertising their recently renovated stacked townhouses within their Waterloo Heights community at 170 Erb St W.

Offering spacious renovated 2 and 3-bedroom townhome-style suites with 1.5 baths and new broadloom, Waterloo Heights is an Adult Lifestyle building located just steps away from Waterloo Park and the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex.  These spacious suites come with three appliances including a fridge, stove and dishwasher.  A quiet building catering primarily to seniors, property amenities include laundry facilities, secure entry, private patios and heat, water and parking are included.  The building also offers residents the option of a "Full Service" plan ranging from $3,450 - $4,190 per month.  Retirement Services are also available at this facility.

The history of this building is interesting.  It was built a general population rental in the 1970s or 1980s with a floor of apartments on the ground floor, two floors of stacked townhouses above that (ie one unit included space on floor 2 and floor 3). The fourth floor includes one entire private suite for the building owner.  All the floors above that included regular apartments.  Later, when the Province made some changes to seniors housing, the apartment building was bought and slowly converted to seniors housing one unit at a time.  To my knowledge the townhouses and the entire floor suite still exists.