General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[ac3r]

It's very likely dead. The tower was "approved in principle" but then the property was put up for sale. Kiah Group still lists it on their website, stating it's for sale on an MLS. I've checked Realtor.ca and don't see the property, however, so perhaps someone did buy the property since then as I remember seeing signs hanging on the business that occupies the corner. Not sure if those are gone now as I haven't been past there in a long time.

Given that this was proposed back in 2019 - and went through a lot of changes, with the original proposal being 21 floors and then I guess reduced to 17 (according to this database file?) - it was never going to break ground, especially when you have a no-name developer like Kiah Group with virtually no experience involved attempting to take on a property that has an existing historical/heritage structure.

Interestingly, it would appear they drastically changed the podium design late 2020. I managed to pull this image from their website, which looks a hell of a lot better (but still terrible) from the proposal:

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Whatever happens to this site, I hope whatever is proposed is drastically different than what this mess was aspiring to be.