General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[ZEBuilder]

The City of Kitchener has a proposal submitted for a 13 floor residential building with a total of 202 units and 6 "live-work" units on the ground floor (as well as underground parking). I'm a bit confused, though. It lists it at 1295 Bleams Road but that address is in Wilmot. When you look that up on Google Maps it points to a farm field. There is also a 1295 Bleams Road East and 1295 Bleams Road West and that's in the middle of a single family home neighbourhood in New Hamburg. I looked up current active applications on the Township of Wilmot website but they don't have anything there. So this is a bit of a mystery. Perhaps it was just a typo.

Looking at the cities mapping application 1295 Bleams Road is the south east corner of Fischer Hallman and Bleams (Sunfish plaza corner). When they were originally getting zoning approval for the plaza (2018) they were only planning on putting a 6 floor building in this corner. The side closest to the Huron natural area was supposed to have 12 floor buildings so whenever those get built they might be taller then proposed as well.

This whole corner of Fischerhallman and Bleams is turning into a really high density location, you have 1295 Bleams at 13 floors, 1200 Fischer Hallman (other side of Bleams from 1295 Bleams) which is proposed at 34 floors, then 1198 Fischer Hallman and 1274 Bleams is proposed to contain 2 14 floor buildings as well as 96 stacked townhouse units and 51 3 storey townhouse units.