11-08-2014, 03:02 PM
(11-08-2014, 11:01 AM)BuildingScout Wrote:(11-08-2014, 10:48 AM)REnerd Wrote: Such bad news for downtown Kitchener. Stantec WAS an anchor of the downtown for so long... now they are moving to the sterile lands north of U of W.
I think this is great news. Hopefully now we can start thinking about demolishing market square, and aberration that should never have been built in the first place.
Market square torn down is just another empty parking lot.
I can't see anything positive about it. It will leave a giant empty space downtown. It will mean a couple hundred less office dwellers lunching and walking in the centre. It will mean less LRT users (North Campus is all about parking IMO). It will be a further gutting of building that already has major problems.
Also, Stantec was considering staying in the downtown core with talks of a new construction (a la Google). Now that would have been big news...