The Metz (Schneiders site redevelopment)

[westwardloo]

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).

If you are so opposed to it, Why dont you sketch up some ideas and forward it to them and promote yourself.  Maybe they will like your ideas.

I merely pointed out reasons I think this masterplan is flawed, which I thought was the point of these forums.  What is it about the masterplan that you like or think is going to be a successful addition to Kitchener's urban fabric? I might give it a quick go this weekend for fun to see what I can come up with, but I am not trying to promote myself. I am not a trained city planner, nor am I looking to start a business that could take on a project of this magnitude. I can have criticism to a project without the need to provide a solutions. Firms get paid good money to produce these master plans, doesn't mean I have to agree with the final design.