Nothing wrong with investigating the viability of designating a historical factory of Waterloo Region as a heritage building. Doesn't mean you can't still build a large project on the site, it would just need to preserve the existing buildings which is easy enough given the acreage of this site. Sounds like the City of Cambridge knew it was put up for sale and decided to hire a architectural heritage company to determine whether it has any significance worth preservation.
I would only hope a bad developer doesn't buy this up. We all witnessed what HIP did with The Gaslight in Cambridge, for example. They had two of the regions most reputable architecture firms (Martin Simmons Sweers and ABA) involved and it could have been so good with all those existing old buildings, but then they decided to save money and totally ruined the podium and made one of the worst eyesores I've ever seen. Not only did the towers look like shit, the design was just an offensive disservice to the original structures that are there.
I would only hope a bad developer doesn't buy this up. We all witnessed what HIP did with The Gaslight in Cambridge, for example. They had two of the regions most reputable architecture firms (Martin Simmons Sweers and ABA) involved and it could have been so good with all those existing old buildings, but then they decided to save money and totally ruined the podium and made one of the worst eyesores I've ever seen. Not only did the towers look like shit, the design was just an offensive disservice to the original structures that are there.