04-27-2015, 09:08 PM
(04-27-2015, 08:34 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(04-27-2015, 08:26 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Auburn is going to be tied up at Barrelyards for a while, and then they have the (potential) second tower at Arrow to do, so I suspect this would be pretty far down the priority list.
It would make a nice location for a mid-sized grocery store for the Kitchener core, though.
Really? I can think of half a dozen Downtown locations where I'd put a grocery store before I'd build one on the slope of Benton St.
There is the slope, yes. But you can build the store into the hill on two levels (common in Europe) you can even have a small underground parking deck.
On the other hand, the cost of the land will also be substantially higher at, say, next to 1 Victoria. And conventional surface parking will eat up more valuable land.
I'm not saying that I actually expect to see this. But I do think it could work well.