TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C

[Rainrider22]

That can't be right, Jeff Outhit says Waterloo is the tallest city....

[neonjoe]

That can't be right, Jeff Outhit says Waterloo is the tallest city....

It was the most indigenous way to manipulate the numbers that I've seen in a while.
He was looking a percentages of peoples or dwellings living in buildings over 5 stories as a tall building.

Waterloo has a higher percentage of residents living in buildings 5 or more stories than kitchener 
16% vs 11%
Waterloo has a higher percentage of buildings that are 5 stores or over
22% vs 16%

But this fails to even look at the fact that Kitchener is over twice as big as Waterloo population wise. This also fails to look at the fact that Kitchener has buildings that are far taller than waterloo.

[ZEBuilder]

That can't be right, Jeff Outhit says Waterloo is the tallest city....

It was the most indigenous way to manipulate the numbers that I've seen in a while.
He was looking a percentages of peoples or dwellings living in buildings over 5 stories as a tall building.

Waterloo has a higher percentage of residents living in buildings 5 or more stories than kitchener 
16% vs 11%
Waterloo has a higher percentage of buildings that are 5 stores or over
22% vs 16%

But this fails to even look at the fact that Kitchener is over twice as big as Waterloo population wise. This also fails to look at the fact that Kitchener has buildings that are far taller than waterloo.

It also fails to look at the fact that most of Kitchener's recent density didn't exist or wasn't occupied until recently, the data is from 2021, in 2021 City Center 2, Bright Building, Duke Tower, Civic 66, Woodside phase 2, Station Park 1 and 2, 387/397 King, 169 Borden and more all weren't occupied. Waterloo hasn't had anywhere near that level of completion since then, Kitchener also has so much more under construction right now (Metz A/B/C, 1001 King, 3241 King, 25 Sportsworld Crossing, 1295 Bleams, 50 Otterbein, 599 Strasburg, 83 Elmsdale T1 and T2, Tek, Station Park C, Drewlo still).

[panamaniac]

That can't be right, Jeff Outhit says Waterloo is the tallest city....

It was the most indigenous way to manipulate the numbers that I've seen in a while.
He was looking a percentages of peoples or dwellings living in buildings over 5 stories as a tall building.

Waterloo has a higher percentage of residents living in buildings 5 or more stories than kitchener 
16% vs 11%
Waterloo has a higher percentage of buildings that are 5 stores or over
22% vs 16%

But this fails to even look at the fact that Kitchener is over twice as big as Waterloo population wise. This also fails to look at the fact that Kitchener has buildings that are far taller than waterloo.

Ingenious?  Disingenuous, perhaps?

[neonjoe]

It was the most indigenous way to manipulate the numbers that I've seen in a while.
He was looking a percentages of peoples or dwellings living in buildings over 5 stories as a tall building.

Waterloo has a higher percentage of residents living in buildings 5 or more stories than kitchener 
16% vs 11%
Waterloo has a higher percentage of buildings that are 5 stores or over
22% vs 16%

But this fails to even look at the fact that Kitchener is over twice as big as Waterloo population wise. This also fails to look at the fact that Kitchener has buildings that are far taller than waterloo.

Ingenious?  Disingenuous, perhaps?

I didn’t catch the spell checker modifying my poor spelling

[Rainrider22]

I knew what you meant. And you are correct in the analysis.

And I have been saying for a while, that Jeff always relies on dated data..

[CuilTard]

Here's a different angle for once. From Victoria and Joseph 

[tomh009]

And the fact that almost all of Waterloo's highrises are student residences.

[CuilTard]

Oct 26

[Lebronj23]

15 more to go. It looks pretty tall when downtown already especially when seeing it from the ‘skinny’ angle. Does this look darker than the render? Maybe it is the balcony glazing that will we a light color to brighten it up

[Spokes]

I remember walking past the Lang facility years ago thinking how big that street wall felt. 🤣

[cherrypark]

15 more to go. It looks pretty tall when downtown already especially when seeing it from the ‘skinny’ angle. Does this look darker than the render? Maybe it is the balcony glazing that will we a light color to brighten it up

Hard to tell since every marketing render was a night time scene. Looking back, I think it was always darker walls with lighter balconies.

[neonjoe]

I am definitely not minding this building as much as DTK. Hopefully once the full cladding is done it still looks decent. Maybe SRM’s best so far.

[ac3r]

It's just another black and white rectangle. Half of the new buildings in the region share this bland, uninspired look.