General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[tomh009]

44 Gaukel is already occupied by ArtsBuild Ontario and Accelerator Centre, where they rent out studio space to artists/creatives and rent out venue space for creative projects. I couldn't see them shutting that down just so Conestoga can expand when it's one of the few arts spaces in the region. It's a small building as well, so you couldn't host that many students there.

"Creative industries" would actually be a good fit with ArtsBuild. And that property is mostly a parking lot, the building occupies only about a sixth of it. Add a 10-15-storey building on that property with space for the college, connect it to the existing building, and use the top floors of the new building for apartments, office space or a hotel.