General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[BuildingScout]

I wonder if there have ever been instances of a restaurant opening in a space where another restaurant failed with a different business model, and succeeded in spite of a location that is cursed (as evidenced by a restaurant going out of business after several years of operation).

I'm serious. Most of the recent restaurant openings in downtown are struggling, the exception being the Duke Food Block. So why the need to have yet another restaurant in an area that is clearly not yet ready to support another one?

At this point Downtown needs more people: more residents and more workers. Once density is there, prime ground level retail space will be snatched of the market in no time.