General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

Contrary to the claims here, I feel the new housing is significantly better than earlier housing. And the city has spent a significant amount of effort to improve the urban design of the area.

I don't know how much "earlier" you mean here, but I think for the student towers, there has been some trend toward improvement, at least looking from outside the buildings. The earliest ones, that row of towers on King St between University Ave and Columbia St is the worst. Some of the recent buildings are more or less OK, and not many of them are atrocious. A low bar, I know ...

By earlier, I mean housing built largely on Lester and King when things were opened up say ~10 years ago.

I should have said recent housing, built in the past 4-5 years, I feel is significantly better.

So yes...I agree...more or less.