General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[tomh009]

I see your point. I couldn't agree more that downtown needs more people. We're all aware that a virtuous cycle involves residents attracting more services which in turn attract more residents. To play devil's advocate, I might suggest that services (and particularly ones that cater to residents rather than workers) is what is still needed: Kitchener's has traditionally been a "9-to-5" downtown with plenty of employees and not enough residents. Maybe we do need more restaurants, and more people living downtown to frequent them, but not particularly more office workers.

The office workers do provide lunch business for the restaurants, but much less so for dinner: for that, more residents will help.  So when 1 Victoria and City Centre are completed, it will be much easier for a restaurant to succeed in the downtown core.