General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[ijmorlan]

I didn’t realize those still had separate ownership. I always assumed SunLife just hadn’t wanted the space yet.

Incidentally, do you happen to know if Mutual Dr. is still an actual city street? Google Maps shows it as such, but it seems weird for SunLife not to have taken ownership since it has no use whatsoever other than providing access to their parking lot and it is laid out like part of a parking lot, not like a street.

It's not an actual street. Was it ever one? I'm unsure but many someone knows. If you pull it up on the City of Kitchener OnPoint Map Viewer there is no indication of it being a street, just 1 major parcel of property (again with the exception of the 2 houses). There isn't any signage that says Mututal Drive, just some new signs that show the address and lights to indicate how full the lot is.

It appears so:

https://nucloud.com/1855-map-of-waterloo/#iLightbox[postimages]/0

But according to this map it was just part of Caroline St. I assume that Mutual Life expanded across the street and bought out the street from the city immediately north of Union, and at some point the portion between Union and Mt. Hope St. was renamed to Mutual Dr. But I don’t know the actual history in detail.

It’s also possible this map shows only what was surveyed, not necessarily what was ever built (I assume they re-purposed the plot shown as Mount Hope Cemetery into the hospital before anybody had actually been buried there, although again I don’t know the actual history). I know even within my memory there used to be many more houses on Park St. along that block; I don’t recall there being anything on King or Mutual Dr. itself.

I wonder where Google Maps got their information from?

https://goo.gl/maps/XaHxpeqMogT6FKjz9