General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[westwardloo]

Wouldn’t be shocked if UW was interested in pursuing this. They also own probably the largest amount of undeveloped land in the city on their “north campus”.

The new President of UW is a widely respected public health scholar and 6-year CEO of Public Health Ontario - I think its a given they are working towards that and was actually more surprised they weren't in the original announcement, though I'm sure this is part of building the support up to it.

Here's a completely random 60 acres, just for a point of reference...

I actually like this location for the new Hospital. It is close to the LRT, and could be incorporated into UW with research and medical technology labs. Not the most accessible by car, but at least it is not in some farm field on the edge of the city. If we could draw inspiration from Ottawa's new civic hospital that would be a win. https://reimagineottawa.ca/new-civic-hospital  Unfortunately it seems like everything the University of Waterloo builds has acres of surface parking lots.