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  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW

Rainrider22 Wrote: (05-14-2024, 09:38 AM) -- The plan to make this the only Emergency department has been in the details all along  This is why I was saying, north Waterloo is stupid.  People will di...
  cherrypark Urban Issues 241 37,262 Yesterday, 12:35 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...

clasher Wrote: (05-11-2024, 10:28 AM) -- Structural steel is galvanized individually before it's erected, so this won't be galvanized. White could be the final colour, a lot of structural steel is pr...
  cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 88 39,221 05-13-2024, 10:43 AM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW

ac3r Wrote: (05-11-2024, 12:06 PM) -- I know the sites they're looking at. Not ideal, but meh... healthcare matters more than anything, so any new hospital will be good. I know this forum is obsessed...
  cherrypark Urban Issues 241 37,262 05-13-2024, 09:53 AM
  Thread: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours

Not opposed to the concept that new developments shouldn't carry the burden of affordable housing costs, but just passing the buck to the province vs. any serious look at current home owning and asset...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 367 320,947 05-06-2024, 03:27 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...

Design is just the trusses with some mesh applied. (https://icreate7.esolutionsgroup.ca/11111028_RegionofWaterloo/en/living-here/resources/Documents/Current-Construction/DC_66114_Structuraldrawings.pd...
  cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 88 39,221 05-02-2024, 01:44 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites

Bytor Wrote: (04-27-2024, 06:13 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (04-27-2024, 02:04 PM) -- No idea, but that doesn't imply that it was to hand over to a single large company. -- If not, then there was no reason...
  cherrypark Politics 196 7,664 04-29-2024, 09:43 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed

panamaniac Wrote: (04-18-2024, 09:34 PM) -- Acitta Wrote: (04-18-2024, 08:39 PM) -- I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have b...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 79 6,782 04-19-2024, 10:04 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed

If having a community climbing gym is a critical part of community, Kitchener or the Region are both quite capable of using their land and capital budgets to build a permanent home for GRR's climbing ...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 79 6,782 04-18-2024, 04:53 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

Yeah Weston UPX is my hack for getting to downtown when there is no good transit at the time I need to be heading through. Park and ride from Weston skips a lot of the downtown gridlock. Just wish the...
  cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 2,006 1,181,863 04-17-2024, 09:36 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites

danbrotherston Wrote: (04-16-2024, 01:28 AM) -- I mean, 6.8% unemployment is within the normal range, and even low for the past 30 years or so. But certainly it is trending upwards. But that is for O...
  cherrypark Politics 196 7,664 04-16-2024, 02:00 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites

Unemployment data a short search away... (https://www.ontario.ca/page/labour-market-report-january-2024#:~:text=data%2C%20chart%204-,Unemployment%20rate%20decreased%20to%206.2%25,January%20from%205.8%...
  cherrypark Politics 196 7,664 04-15-2024, 10:58 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites

I think the instinct for the countryside line protection is fine but really if this is about another TMMC scale plant coming to the region and the secondary jobs that would create as well, the product...
  cherrypark Politics 196 7,664 04-12-2024, 11:58 AM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...

the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-10-2024, 02:30 PM) -- Honest question, how difficult would it be to modify the existing bridge to improve the pedestrian and cycling experience? If we just focused on the...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 173 32,017 04-10-2024, 09:38 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...

Don't let your memories remain in the past. Your reality is one hole saw and a cordless drill away.
  cherrypark Urban Areas 148 32,098 04-10-2024, 09:31 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

Boring design and completely agnostic to its context. I will never reconcile the thinking of doing this kind of look on a street filled with the KW vernacular style. Doesn't have to be a revival but w...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 1,237 996,184 04-10-2024, 09:30 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

ac3r Wrote: (02-21-2024, 11:39 AM) -- Why are talentless architects addicted to putting random blotches of colour on their buildings? It makes no sense. -- If the choice is this or the monochrome p...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 1,237 996,184 04-10-2024, 09:05 AM
  Thread: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C

Went past on the ION over the weekend. Fits the area well and more of these would be welcome.
  cherrypark Urban Areas 71 36,289 04-10-2024, 09:01 AM
  Thread: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/...

Painfully bad podium and an enormous lost opportunity to animate an area that the city is pushing to be more walkable and activated on the street. Probably also falls in the realm of architectural com...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 781 436,535 04-10-2024, 09:00 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed

Such are the perils of operating a business that has these kinds of expensive and complex leasehold improvements while not owning the property. I am a bit surprised GRR being evicted from one location...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 79 6,782 04-10-2024, 08:49 AM
  Thread: UW Innovation Arena
Post: RE: UW Innovation Arena

I would bet the cladding is final, though the upper area of the front facade likely still has the angular pieces to go on if the last renders are to be matched.
  cherrypark Urban Areas 49 13,614 04-05-2024, 11:50 AM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails

tomh009 Wrote: (03-24-2024, 03:00 PM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (03-23-2024, 06:15 PM) -- That's about the most recent coverage you can have on Gaukel since the demolition and closure of Gaukel were close...
  cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 2,700 1,611,799 03-25-2024, 02:33 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours

Safe to say local culture and motivated residents are the actual ingredients of there being community or not, aside the road network. Cul-de-sacs can still be reasonably well interconnected or not, th...
  cherrypark Townships 170 160,729 03-20-2024, 10:06 AM
  Thread: 490 Huron Rd | 12, 12, 20, 24 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 490 Huron Rd | 12, 12, 20, 24 fl | Proposed

Here's hoping even 50% of those rendered trees actually get planted. That section of Huron is wide open field and could desperately use some natural cover and wind breaks.
  cherrypark Suburbs 14 3,926 03-19-2024, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C

Lebronj23 Wrote: (02-17-2024, 08:19 PM) -- This is going to be the 3rd tallest tower in Kitchener after TEK tops out, and after DTK. This is 115m tall -- Plus I assume around 6-10m of topographic a...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 1,678 994,234 03-14-2024, 09:34 AM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...

Spoken like someone who has never needed to get N-S in Kitchener on anything other than a car or train... While I personally think making Westmount and Homer Watson highway crossings better was availa...
  cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 88 39,221 03-08-2024, 01:29 PM
  Thread: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl...

ijmorlan Wrote: (03-06-2024, 06:37 PM) -- cherrypark Wrote: (03-06-2024, 08:15 AM) -- Trivial issue but folks can we please cool it with the bike shape bike racks. -- Maybe we should have Hummer-s...
  cherrypark Urban Areas 224 120,750 03-07-2024, 12:21 AM

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