(12-18-2023, 10:54 AM)SF22 Wrote:(12-17-2023, 10:49 PM)tomh009 Wrote: On a similar theme, I give you 555 King St E in Kitchener. Not new, but I don't recall when it was built. Maybe 20 years ago?
I've always wondered who had the foresight to build these units. We briefly looked at these units back in about 2012 or so, because they were visually appealing and in a central location, but I think they were a little out of our price range at that time. It's a shame that whoever developed them didn't build 20 more blocks just like it.
One development I like is Victoria Commons development. It's not perfect and the architecture of it is just like any suburb but they managed to squeeze in nearly 200 contemporary rowhouses into an extremely small space in that one. They could have easily built them in actual continuous rows and fit more housing in, rather than like most townhouse or rowhouse blocks these days where they're always broken up into blocks of XX units but even in spite of that but even if you ignore that it's real cool that they even dared to do this project with that degree of density. Often these days when a developer does townhouses or rowhouses it's just a building or two and has an incredible amount of wasted space in the form of useless yards, driveways that don't need to be so long or wide or outright parking lots.