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  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
When KW Hospital was first proposed in 1895, there was so much argument about whether it should be in Berlin (Kitchener) or Waterloo, and in either case, where, that Joseph Seagram ultimately bought t...
   nms Urban Issues 239 36,957 Yesterday, 07:42 AM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
If it happens, that should Waterloo pull out of the apparent "no housing starts" slump that surfaces every now and then. It's a shame that the City wasn't able to negotiate for the keeping of the NCR...
   nms Suburbs 1,234 956,479 05-12-2024, 10:12 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Acitta Wrote: (05-07-2024, 08:52 PM) -- Getting off the #6 bus tonight, I was dismayed to see that the Nougat Bakery at Stirling and Courtland had closed. Roua grocery store seems to be expanding int...
   nms Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,310 2,046,162 05-08-2024, 12:37 AM
  Thread: Louie Condos (Columbia St and Albert St) | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Louie Condos (Columbia St and Albert St) | 8 f...
Waterloo must have a policy because they were able to pressure the developer to build the tower on the Westmount Plaza site after the developer applied to demolish the small apartment buildings on Die...
   nms University Area 17 5,056 04-30-2024, 05:13 PM
  Thread: Louie Condos (Columbia St and Albert St) | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Louie Condos (Columbia St and Albert St) | 8 f...
Will this property be subject to penalties for demolishing rental housing and not starting construction soon enough?
   nms University Area 17 5,056 04-29-2024, 09:30 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
This is the only Route 91 clue that I could find from a cached copy of the CBTDB Wiki (https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Grand_River_Transit_route_9_%27Lakeshore%27) from May 4, 2022. The first entry ab...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,260,958 04-26-2024, 08:26 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Was the new hospital intended to be in addition to the current capacity at GRH and St. Mary's, or merely a replacement of existing capacity? If it was supposed to be a new hospital in addition to GRH ...
   nms Urban Areas 5,589 3,996,893 04-26-2024, 07:57 PM
  Thread: Cambridge Mill Hotel | 38 & 24 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Cambridge Mill Hotel | 38 & 24 fl | Proposed
Kodra24 Wrote: (04-23-2024, 01:05 PM) -- nms Wrote: (10-25-2021, 08:17 PM) -- One could argue that asking for any number of nuisance additions to a development could cut into a developer's profits. ...
   nms Urban Areas 89 45,361 04-23-2024, 10:52 PM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Looking at the overhead view of the school, it looks like a previous building expansion may have eaten into the existing playground and/or parking area. The current school site does not appear to hav...
   nms Suburbs 1,234 956,479 04-22-2024, 08:30 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
panamaniac Wrote: (04-18-2024, 08:36 PM) -- Acitta Wrote: (04-18-2024, 08:34 PM) -- Maybe GRR could buy that derelict building on Madison next to the tracks. I am tired of looking at it when I go by...
   nms Urban Areas 79 6,739 04-19-2024, 06:48 AM
  Thread: General Arts and Culture News
Post: RE: General Arts and Culture News
The event is called Fest2Fall (https://www.fest2fall.com/) and the headliners include Bahamas and Tim Baker on Thursday and The Beaches and JJ Wilde on Friday.
   nms Arts and Culture 519 502,428 04-19-2024, 06:44 AM
  Thread: 2934 King St E | 11 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 2934 King St E | 11 fl | Proposed
What's the tally of "zone-and-flip" properties in Waterloo Region? Are these all the ones that are counted when various panels of experts tell us that there enough land for growth in Waterloo Region ...
   nms Suburbs 16 2,236 04-19-2024, 06:37 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Quote: -- It has a length of 160 meters, with seven spans and six piers. Two lanes of cars can cross the bridge and the 6 foot wide sidewalk is a unique feature found on this bowstring arch bridge....
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,260,958 04-19-2024, 06:34 AM
  Thread: UW Innovation Arena
Post: RE: UW Innovation Arena
Everything looks nice in the rendering until the quotes come in. I guess if they were unable to find a donor to fund this, they had to make do with what they had in the face on ongoing tuition freeze...
   nms Urban Areas 49 13,588 04-05-2024, 02:36 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
I can't say much about when things were developed but here is a quick overview that are mainly back of the envelope scratches.  I've excluded the downtowns since I wanted to look at space that might b...
   nms Urban Areas 79 6,739 04-05-2024, 02:33 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Schneider Family Lands donation to rare charit...
ac3r Wrote: (04-02-2024, 05:43 AM) -- Once it's completely full, they have considered building a waste to energy incineration facility which I think would be a great idea. One caveat is that they thi...
   nms Politics 196 7,601 04-02-2024, 10:27 PM
  Thread: Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed
ac3r Wrote: (04-02-2024, 12:13 PM) -- It's hard to tell if this would ever get built, though. I think a lot of people on this forum have misunderstood a lot of the Growing Together stuff, especially ...
   nms Urban Areas 31 4,738 04-02-2024, 10:21 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Just to toss this one out there to add to all of the speculation ... the current ROW dump site is around 600 acres and due to retirement soon enough. This site would be a terrible spot for a dump for...
   nms Politics 196 7,601 04-01-2024, 08:21 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
This site is roughly equidistant between the Cambridge and Woodstock Toyota plants, but somewhat removed from any possible rail connection. The farmers are largely upset because they were promised ...
   nms Politics 196 7,601 03-28-2024, 07:55 AM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
I think VIA is going madly off in all directions and doing its best to play catch-up on lots of files. While HFR will serve a higher density of the Canadian population, their long-distance, sleeper s...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 296 193,832 03-28-2024, 07:45 AM
  Thread: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | proposed
Post: RE: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | propos...
If my interpretation of this phot is correct, the development includes 850 King St W, the small office building that is currently used by Grand River Hospital for some outpatient services. It's the b...
   nms Urban Areas 3 523 03-28-2024, 07:40 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
ZEBuilder Wrote: (03-26-2024, 08:35 PM) -- Square Wrote: (01-20-2024, 08:14 PM) -- The old CTV building has a sold sign on it. -- Vive is the owner of this, they now have a early concept for the s...
   nms Urban Areas 5,589 3,996,893 03-28-2024, 07:34 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Pity anyone living on the north (eg Weber) side of the DTK building who may be losing their views. It would be nice if the YWCA could find a partner to use that site for affordable housing (eg like...
   nms Urban Areas 5,589 3,996,893 03-26-2024, 05:08 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Schneider Family Lands donation to rare charit...
Now if only we still had some industrial land within the existing municipal boundaries. I'm looking at you NCR and Kraus (Waterloo) and Budd (Kitchener). Do other countries protect their industrial ...
   nms Politics 196 7,601 03-25-2024, 08:40 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Going in the opposite direction, when will the articulated buses be in service?
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,260,958 03-24-2024, 09:55 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Meanwhile elsewhere in Wilmot Township... Veteran environmentalist cries foul over Wilmot land assembly (https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/veteran-environmentalist-cries-foul-over-wilm...
   nms Politics 196 7,601 03-24-2024, 09:49 PM

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