General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

The pandemic is one reason why the downtown is so quiet at the moment. What is also true - and someone pointed it out - is that we're a region of over 600'000 people, but we have 3 downtown cores. Aside from that, what the downtown is really lacking is retail and things to do. There are very few interesting shops and even fewer things like art galleries, cinemas, music venues and so on.

Downtown does in fact have a cinema, an art gallery, and several music venues...

Edit:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.448548,-8...6656?hl=en
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Apollo+...8889?hl=en
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Conrad+...8258?hl=en

I think the biggest failing in DTK is advertising, aside from the apollo, which I frequent quite a bit, I wouldn't know about these things if I didn't walk past them...which is why foot traffic is so important.