General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

This picture reminds me, does anyone know what's up with that unkept green space behind the UW building parking lot?  It's a fairly large space that you really notice when you walk the path from King St toward the new google garage.

The space along the tracks? If it's the space I'm thinking of, it's got significant industrial contamination, the remediation would cost more than the land is worth, hence the land is absolutely worthless now. Even putting a trail on the land was difficult because the city had to get permission to develop on the contaminated site without remediating it. It was only allowed because trail users weren't "lingering" basically, it's fine if you just pass through, but you cannot inhabit that space.