01-28-2023, 04:46 PM
(01-28-2023, 12:24 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(01-28-2023, 12:52 AM)urbd Wrote: Since you love talking about your insider knowledge, I can tell you that the Rockway Golf Course is 100% planned to be sold for development and to create a big public park - which is a much more efficient and equitable use of land than a golf course. A handful of developers have submitted proposals to the city.
ps. the "beautiful and historic Rockway Gardens" really?! I almost choke laughing... that place looks like a tacky postcard from 1970s Wisconsin. So yeah I guess historic.
As the city's most visible make-work project from the Great Depression, and as the site of countless wedding photos, I would argue that it certainly is part of Kitchener's cultural and historical heritage. It's also interesting as an NGO-maintained public space.
Rockway Gardens is not really attached to the golf course and its size/shape is not ideal for development so I don't see why it could not continue to exist even if the golf course is repurposed.