The Junction | 37 & 33 fl | Proposed

[Square]

Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here? Thank you.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-...m2!1e4!1e1

[tomh009]

In the normal world,yes, but the Kitchener core has such a long history of landowners sitting on their properties that I’ll hold off getting too excited until we see something specific.

No, I won't hold my breath. But I'm cautiously optimistic: this land will have cost a bundle so the developer is probably not intending to sit on it for a decade or four.

Adding to my own post: this property is just over 1 ha (close to 3 acres) so the price tag would have surely been somewhere between $10M and $20M.

[panamaniac]

Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here?  Thank you.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-...m2!1e4!1e1

I'm wracking my brain and I can't feature anything on that site, going back to the 1960s.  Could it have been a parking lot for the old Doon Twines (Canada Cordage) plant?  I seem to have a vague recollection of a lumber yard there, but I may be confusing it with the place that used to be across Charles, on the actual Junction site.
Maybe someone else has a better memory.

[tomh009]

Riordan car rentals? But the current owner is MTD.

If/when MTD decides to move, that will be a huge opportunity for infill development.

[panamaniac]

Riordan car rentals? But the current owner is MTD.

If/when MTD decides to move, that will be a huge opportunity for infill development.

Yes, now that you mention it ...  It's hard to remember - it has always been such a "nothing" bit of town (that stretch of Charles between Borden and Stirling).

Does MTD still manufacture at the Kitchener location?  I used to associate them with lawnmowers, but I have no idea what they do nowadays.

[Rainrider22]

It was a Beaver Lumber

[sevenman]

Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here?  Thank you.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-...m2!1e4!1e1

I remember a truck rental location there, can't remember which dealer.  I don't remember a Beaver Lumber but I do remember the Copp's Buildall across the street.

[Rainrider22]

That spot had a Carter Truck rental at one time. Before that, I cant remember

[tomh009]

Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here?  Thank you.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-...m2!1e4!1e1

I remember a truck rental location there, can't remember which dealer.  I don't remember a Beaver Lumber but I do remember the Copp's Buildall across the street.

Yeah, Copp's Buildall!

See page 19:
https://digitalshift-assets.sfo2.cdn.dig...rogram.pdf

[sevenman]

I remember a truck rental location there, can't remember which dealer.  I don't remember a Beaver Lumber but I do remember the Copp's Buildall across the street.

Yeah, Copp's Buildall!

See page 19:
https://digitalshift-assets.sfo2.cdn.dig...rogram.pdf

Nice work Tom, 1975!  Where did you dig that up from? 
Ironically, I go through the program and one of the players in there from London is somebody that worked for a local wholesaler that I did business with.  This program is from 15 years before I met him!
Good to see some of those old names in there.  Ponderosa, Ali Baba, Mother's...
Thx Tom

[tomh009]

It's amazing what Mr Google can dig up once you offer him the right kind of bait!

[KaiserWilhelmsBust]

The developer doing Park/Vic bought this from Perimeter for $15,000,000

[Spokes]

Just do that project here away from the neighborhood association 🤣

[ijmorlan]

Just do that project here away from the neighborhood association 🤣

And then slide it in place overnight, like one of those rapid bridge replacements!

[Spokes]

Works for me!