12-02-2020, 09:47 AM
As bland as City Place is, I would take that any day from a developer like Auburn. Call me cynic, but I don't have much faith in this master plan. Seems like a glorified tower in the park kind of development. Lots of green space around the towers, and dead end private roads. Then a small little park that is smaller than the parking lot beside it. The main BLVD running through the property should have run from Sterling to Bordon making more of a grid network. No thought on how to uncover the creek running under the site and no connection to the neighbourhood south west of the train tracks. I do like the eastern corner of the development, not sure it will be a destination within Kitchener though.
Too late now I guess, we will just have to wait and see what Auburn has in store for us. Maybe they will splurge and spend some money on a couple different architects to design the buildings to give it a unique feel. (fingers cross on a Hariri Pontarini, Diamond Schmitt, Temple or even a Quadrangle).
Too late now I guess, we will just have to wait and see what Auburn has in store for us. Maybe they will splurge and spend some money on a couple different architects to design the buildings to give it a unique feel. (fingers cross on a Hariri Pontarini, Diamond Schmitt, Temple or even a Quadrangle).