General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[panamaniac]

Some Downtown random:

- the exterior storefront of the Dollarama is being updated.  It will probably look cleaner, but I'm afraid that the cool black and blue ceramic panels from the '50s are being covered over.

Not covered, replaced - with a decent, if plain, slate tile.

I see that the pillars have received the same treatment.  I must admit that it looks quite OK. 

Across King St, I see that some pallets of bricks have been delivered to the project on the east side of the American Hotel Block.  To my surprise, they are brown, similar to the brick on Market Square.  I was hoping for brick, but I assumed that it would be buff, like the rest of the building.