Market Square

[Lens]

Rumour is a post secondary education organization is thinking about setting up in the old Manulife space.

[panamaniac]

Rumour is a post secondary education organization is thinking about setting up in the old Manulife space.

As in a public entity?

[jeffster]

Rumour is a post secondary education organization is thinking about setting up in the old Manulife space.

As in a public entity?

That would be most helpful -- Waterloo and McMaster maybe?

[BruceAshe]

Rumour is a post secondary education organization is thinking about setting up in the old Manulife space.

I've heard a different tenant is coming. Did you hear the building needs to be empty by the end of the year for yours?

[urbd]

As in a public entity?

That would be most helpful -- Waterloo and McMaster maybe?

Definitely not... there are a few more phases planned for the Health Sciences complex (King/Vic), and I really doubt they need extra space so urgently that they would lease the former Manulife bldg.

[neonjoe]

Any chance this is related?

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-new...ay-1479437

[tomh009]

Any chance this is related?

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-new...ay-1479437

I think so!

A release says the investment will significantly support the vitality and diversity of the city's education and business communities.

[taylortbb]

Laurier has been talking about how they're out of space and landlocked on their Waterloo campus. Maybe they're planning to setup a significant downtown campus?

Though the fact it also mentions business makes me wonder if it's Velocity-related. Perhaps they're moving back in to the building.

[Lens]

I don't think anyone has guessed the correct organization yet 

[danbrotherston]

Macmaster?

[taylortbb]

Someone on Reddit is claiming they have inside info it's a second location of the Clay & Glass gallery. IMO that seems unlikely, but posted here for completeness.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...nt/epconi8

[danbrotherston]

Someone on Reddit is claiming they have inside info it's a second location of the Clay & Glass gallery. IMO that seems unlikely, but posted here for completeness.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...nt/epconi8

Yeah, that seems pretty unlikely. The whole map would be gigantic for the museum, and I doubt it would be getting as much press as it is.

That's a very strange thing to claim though.

[taylortbb]

We also don't have any real info that the announcement relates to King Centre. The Clay and Glass gallery could be opening a smaller space elsewhere. Not that this changes my opinion it's unlikely.

[panamaniac]

Someone on Reddit is claiming they have inside info it's a second location of the Clay & Glass gallery. IMO that seems unlikely, but posted here for completeness.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...nt/epconi8

I would have thought an announcement of its closure would be more likely than the announcement of a second location (not to start any rumours - I am not suggesting it's closing).

[Lens]

Not McMaster, think of a smaller presence in DTK, actually quite close to Manulife.