Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 43, 50 fl | U/C

[Lebronj23]

Nice shot. Could mods update the title to 43 fl for tower D?

[cherrypark]

Appreciate that VanMar decided to finally add some blue to the sea of monochrome around town. Not incredible architecture but refreshing to see some earthly tones on a tower.

[tomh009]

Appreciate that VanMar decided to finally add some blue to the sea of monochrome around town.

Not everything is white/grey/black in Kitchener, Van Mar is one of the last developers to add colour to their buildings.

The Scott - yellow accents
Garment St - light brown
King/Madison - red brick
Market Flats - green
Vertikal - red
Woodside - brown
Maverick - yellow
The Winston - brown

[cherrypark]

Sure, I mean more on the order of the tall buildings in town. Garment St. definitely added colour, if only to mimic the Glove Factory and The Scott got praise mostly for being a nice colour palette on a modest but well organized building.

In contrast, all the IN8 Kitchener towers are black and white or shades of grey, Greenwin is hell bent on painting everything they operate white, and to be honest, Vertikal barely counts for having red. Vive also seems to have most of their new buildings around downtown proposed in some greyscale with a hint of browns.

[tomh009]

In contrast, all the IN8 Kitchener towers are black and white or shades of grey, Greenwin is hell bent on painting everything they operate white, and to be honest, Vertikal barely counts for having red. Vive also seems to have most of their new buildings around downtown proposed in some greyscale with a hint of browns.

IN8, HIP and Van Mar, definitely. But Vive has been adding colour to their buildings in the past few years: Market Flats, Maverick, Winston and Woodside all have colour. (Ophelia has large murals but is otherwise rather monochrome.)

[CuilTard]

Anyone see the recent scathing review of 15 Wellington? Seems like not all of this is unique to 15, but

 https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/s/wuaDWizQDz

DO NOT MOVE HERE!!
I lived there for a year, and moved out in April. It was the worst time of my life. To sum it up (I apologize for the long list):
- We didn’t have AC for a portion of the summer. It was unbearable. The temp in the unit was 30+ Celsius even with two fans blasting 24/7
- Constant fire alarms going off at random times. I’ve been woken up at 2/3 AM on week days because the fire alarm short circuited (from what front desk said)
- Moving in/out is a pain. You have to book in advance, but their system is a mess. When I moved in they said that they couldn’t provide me an elevator even though I reserved it for that date and time. When I moved out it was TRIPLE booked so we were rushed leaving because we didn’t want to keep others waiting.
- The machine at the parking garage doesn’t work 90% of the time and front desk never answers. It’s expensive to pay to park. My friends would pay $20-30 when they would stay overnight.
- The water is extremely hard and there’s no hot water. Only lukewarm. My dishwasher left a thick and dusty residue that wouldn’t come off my dishes. My neighbours had the same issue. I have also ended up in the ER because of it. My eyes swelled up to the point that I couldn’t see, and the doctor said it was most likely eczema from the hard water.
- The garbage chute was out of order all the time and because of that people would leave their trash out in the halls causing the building to smell like rotting food
- The walls are extremely thin. The unit above me would let their dogs bark and howl all night. I work early mornings, so it was hard for me to sleep at night. And on weekends the same neighbours would host parties until 4-5 AM. I tried calling front desk to file a noise complaint, they didn’t care. I had nights where I would have to stay at my boyfriend’s house because of the noise. Also, the construction is very loud. They start at 6 AM every weekday, so if you want to sleep in, you can’t.
- I had packages stolen numerous times. The mailmen would rarely put my packages in the lockers. They would just throw them in the mail room.
- The building was cleaned once a month and it was quite filthy. People letting their dogs pee in the lobby, muddy/slippery floors, Uber Eats orders sitting in the lobby for weeks, and people throwing their junk mail everywhere
I still have friends living in that building, and they said nothing’s really changed. Personally, I’d recommend looking elsewhere.
Edit: spelling mistake

[CP42]

Anyone see the recent scathing review of 15 Wellington? Seems like not all of this is unique to 15, but

 https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/s/wuaDWizQDz

DO NOT MOVE HERE!!
I lived there for a year, and moved out in April. It was the worst time of my life. To sum it up (I apologize for the long list):
- We didn’t have AC for a portion of the summer. It was unbearable. The temp in the unit was 30+ Celsius even with two fans blasting 24/7
- Constant fire alarms going off at random times. I’ve been woken up at 2/3 AM on week days because the fire alarm short circuited (from what front desk said)
- Moving in/out is a pain. You have to book in advance, but their system is a mess. When I moved in they said that they couldn’t provide me an elevator even though I reserved it for that date and time. When I moved out it was TRIPLE booked so we were rushed leaving because we didn’t want to keep others waiting.
- The machine at the parking garage doesn’t work 90% of the time and front desk never answers. It’s expensive to pay to park. My friends would pay $20-30 when they would stay overnight.
- The water is extremely hard and there’s no hot water. Only lukewarm. My dishwasher left a thick and dusty residue that wouldn’t come off my dishes. My neighbours had the same issue. I have also ended up in the ER because of it. My eyes swelled up to the point that I couldn’t see, and the doctor said it was most likely eczema from the hard water.
- The garbage chute was out of order all the time and because of that people would leave their trash out in the halls causing the building to smell like rotting food
- The walls are extremely thin. The unit above me would let their dogs bark and howl all night. I work early mornings, so it was hard for me to sleep at night. And on weekends the same neighbours would host parties until 4-5 AM. I tried calling front desk to file a noise complaint, they didn’t care. I had nights where I would have to stay at my boyfriend’s house because of the noise. Also, the construction is very loud. They start at 6 AM every weekday, so if you want to sleep in, you can’t.
- I had packages stolen numerous times. The mailmen would rarely put my packages in the lockers. They would just throw them in the mail room.
- The building was cleaned once a month and it was quite filthy. People letting their dogs pee in the lobby, muddy/slippery floors, Uber Eats orders sitting in the lobby for weeks, and people throwing their junk mail everywhere
I still have friends living in that building, and they said nothing’s really changed. Personally, I’d recommend looking elsewhere.
Edit: spelling mistake

I’ve lived in 5 Wellington since January 2023 and my experience is not the same as this person’s.

- The AC did take a long time to get started in the spring of 2023 because it was the first time the building was being switched over and they encountered some issues. It was frustrating, but this didn’t happen at all this past spring in 2024 - which they moved out prior to. 
- Fire alarms happened when the building was being finished / occupied in the spring of 2023. Since the spring of 2023, there have not been any frequent fire alarms.
- I have never had an issue booking the elevator. It’s been a smooth and simple process every time.
- The water is hard, but that’s Kitchener for you. I don’t think this is exactly building specific. I’ve never had issues with getting hot water. 
- The garbage chute is occasionally out of order if someone tries to put an object in that is too large and it gets clogged. My floor never just dumped garbage in the chute room, so that appears to be an issue with people on this individuals floor.
- I never had an issue with noise… so again might just be an issue with their particular neighbours. Everyone on my floor has been respectful of one another. Construction noise might be louder if you’re directly facing it, but I only ever heard it if my windows were open.
- I’ve never had a package stolen. If their delivery people are not putting them in a secure location (the parcel lockers) then that’s not really the building’s fault.
- The building is cleaned professionally once a week, not once a month. I’ve never seen any sort of filth as described by this person. Initially before there were garbage cans in the garage in spring of 2023 people would litter, but not as bad now. Again that’s more a people than a building thing.

Sometimes if people are frustrated, they tend to over exaggerate their frustrations - so I thought I’d share my experience to contrast.

[tomh009]

Do the buildings use water softeners? Or is it standard (hard) city water out of the taps? The city water is super hard in many areas, and I think Station Park has about the worst of it.



Noise is absolutely dependent on the people living next to you, but of course the level of sound insulation will affect how much of that noise you will hear. But, that said, as a general rule you should contact bylaw with any noise problem as a concierge would not be able to do anything to resolve it. And that would be true for any condo or apartment building--or a house.

[Lebronj23]

Permit applied for Tower D construction of underground parking lot and also the construction of the full tower. Look Iike things are moving along. I wonder how many units have been sold for Tower D.

https://onlinepermits.kitchener.ca/portal/sfjsp

[Lebronj23]

Oops. ZE pointed this out a few pages back!

[Momo26]

Can we hear more from owners and/or residents in terms of living in these first two buildings, now that we are coming to 2 years since occupancy by my recollection...

There have been some pretty enticing pricing for units on sale...not far off of the OG 2019/20 pricing, believe it or not.

[Votemac]

Can we hear more from owners and/or residents in terms of living in these first two buildings, now that we are coming to 2 years since occupancy by my recollection...

There have been some pretty enticing pricing for units on sale...not far off of the OG 2019/20 pricing, believe it or not.

Former owner here. I have nothing positive to say about my experience owning/living here, so I will keep it to myself! 

Feel free to DM me any specific questions

[tomh009]

Former owner here. I have nothing positive to say about my experience owning/living here, so I will keep it to myself! 

I'm curious as to what you did to avoid the same problems repeating? And did you select another condo building, or something completely different?

[CP42]

[cherrypark]

VanMar sure knows now to put them up at pace.