03-22-2021, 11:35 AM
(03-21-2021, 11:42 PM)nms Wrote: I wouldn't be so quick to place the lack of development in Uptown Waterloo solely at the feet of City Council. There isn't a block between Central St and Union St that has not seen some form of change or development in the last five years. Unless someone has an inside track on why 87 Regina hasn't happened, all we can do is speculate. (but then again, that's really all that we're doing on most of WRConnected anyway)
What would you say has been the key factor in the lack of recent development in downtown Waterloo? There have been some projects, yes, but since the Shopify build and 1877, there really haven't been any significant constructions starts in the core. Is it just the attraction of Kitchener drawing developers away, then? Or developers prefer Northdale to central Waterloo? Why?