General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

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"Parcel of land at Weber and Cedar streets up for sale for $14 million"

https://outline.com/stat1k/ugUmUN.html

I saw this - it's a big parcel. The entirety of May Place. I'll be a little disappointed if a huge development blindly levels all of that. It's got a lot of character, and the city doesn't let anybody build nooks and crannies like this anymore.

Also one of the last remaining factory worker rowhouses of that era (there used to be a ton). Not everything always has to be kept, but I'd like it if we didn't remove every example of something that was once prominent.

Also very concerned we're going to see a repeat of Israel Pl or Vogue Pl, where the city issues a demolition permit for a bunch of afforable units, and it spends 10 or 20 years as a vacant lot getting passed around, or as surface parking, while we're in the middle of a housing crisis.



Would have really preferred several smaller intensification projects for this area. There's likely no chance for that though