11-26-2021, 03:18 PM
Both IN8 and SRM are basically get rich quick scammers. Companies like this are not uncommon during a construction boom. A developer comes in and realizes they can make a cheap building, marketing it as a beautiful new luxury development. They hire the cheapest possible architect firm they can to design it. Corners get cut after approval to save money and then they end up building an ugly eyesore that begins to fall apart.
Thankfully we're getting more respectable developers and architecture firms working here, as well as some decent local talent that has been doing great work. And the City of Kitchener is not exactly approving every bad development that gets proposed, unlike Waterloo, which has now created a ghetto of student buildings with some of the ugliest architectural designs and coldest/hostile pedestrian environments you can get.
Thankfully we're getting more respectable developers and architecture firms working here, as well as some decent local talent that has been doing great work. And the City of Kitchener is not exactly approving every bad development that gets proposed, unlike Waterloo, which has now created a ghetto of student buildings with some of the ugliest architectural designs and coldest/hostile pedestrian environments you can get.