03-20-2021, 10:57 AM
(03-19-2021, 08:23 PM)urbd Wrote:(03-19-2021, 01:49 PM)welltoldtales Wrote: Is this project still a potential go? Feels like Uptown Waterloo put a lot on hold for development.
Probably not... developers don't believe in Uptown Waterloo anymore, which is unfortunate. Besides the market realities, the City of Waterloo needs a wake up call to start doing some truly innovative planning and urban design to attract quality development. City hall is stuck in their small town and very conservative mentality in the way things are run, even though Council is the most progressive it has ever been.
Well put.
And I agree with Spokes - Waterloo runs on its reputation and nothing more. Apart from the cluster of development around Allen Station, nothing has happened uptown in years. They had all these developers proposing great projects - office, retail, residential - but so far very few of them have gone anywhere. Even outside of the core of uptown, things seem to stall or NIMBYs end up getting in the way (Westmount/Erb). Most people I know in the architecture industry who are involved in this region have said they've all started to focus on downtown Kitchener because nothing ever happens in Waterloo.