It feels like the only time I ever see anyone on that job site, they're smoking a cigarette and standing around or something. Boggles my mind how slow some developers choose to operate on this continent. This developer has been paying countless contractors, renting portable toilets and fencing, security (cameras or on site...not sure) and so much more for 2 years straight. This could have been done in like 2-4 months tops anywhere else.
Btw I liked the kitsch of this building...
Downtown Kitchener looks like any irrelevant generic mid-sized city in North America now, literally a real life version of that meme about an "up-and-coming mid-sized city" where there's a new hipster restaurant, a place to get IPAs on every city block and everyone is in tech or finance. So much culture! The Oktoberfest office building sure looked silly but it is still part of the history of this region, made new comers look up and go "huh?" and did serve a purpose as a sort of workspace for the festival organizers and a tourist info place/shop. Now I guaranteed it'll be a restaurant and/or bar (with a patio, naturally, so you can inhale car exhaust and hear the LRT screech by) and maybe some sort of office space upstairs that will sit vacant for 2 years until the rent drops enough for someone to move in something like an immigration lawyer.
Btw I liked the kitsch of this building...
Downtown Kitchener looks like any irrelevant generic mid-sized city in North America now, literally a real life version of that meme about an "up-and-coming mid-sized city" where there's a new hipster restaurant, a place to get IPAs on every city block and everyone is in tech or finance. So much culture! The Oktoberfest office building sure looked silly but it is still part of the history of this region, made new comers look up and go "huh?" and did serve a purpose as a sort of workspace for the festival organizers and a tourist info place/shop. Now I guaranteed it'll be a restaurant and/or bar (with a patio, naturally, so you can inhale car exhaust and hear the LRT screech by) and maybe some sort of office space upstairs that will sit vacant for 2 years until the rent drops enough for someone to move in something like an immigration lawyer.