Kitchener Station Park: Duo Towers | ?m | 40s | VanMar Developments | Kirkor
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CanadianNational
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emphurent
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The window wall treatment now becoming visible. Hello to the other person who I saw taking photos at the same time!
I'm glad the spandrel is darker so the contrast is higher, but this design in a pair set will be a lot.
The offices here are still slowly being finished.
I'm glad the spandrel is darker so the contrast is higher, but this design in a pair set will be a lot.
The offices here are still slowly being finished.
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emphurent
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Tower D was recently approved with 3 additional stories, making it 43 stories.
A repurposed industry building for UoW in the foreground (the "Innovation Arena")
Balcony is somewhat unique:
A repurposed industry building for UoW in the foreground (the "Innovation Arena")
Balcony is somewhat unique:
rdaner
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Astounding! Is there an American equivalent to K-W (600,000 metro) growing this fast and at these densities? I can’t think of one.
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Koops65
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There are areas in the states growing as fast at a similar population (roughly 700k and roughly 5.5% for the region), the Boise Idaho, Lakeland-Winterhaven, Provo-Orem and Deltona-Dayton Beach MSAs (USA version of our CMAs basically) are all growing at higher rates with similar populations, but they have no where near the densities that KW is hitting, from a quick search the tallest building in those cities is 26 floors in Boise so nothing remotely close to the densities KW is hitting.
It wasn't long ago that Kitchener didn't have a building over 20 floors, in 2019 we had zero. Charlie West, Duke Tower, 100 Victoria Tower 2 all broke the 20 floor height in 2020, with Duke Tower and Charlie West breaking the 30 floor height in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
Now we have 6 buildings completed over 20 floors. Then you have Station Park C, TEK Tower, 1001 King E, Drewlo Downtown Tower 2 and 900 King West all under construction all over 20 floors. You then have Momentum selling Q condos (34 floors), IN8 is applying for building permits for TEK 3 (44 floors), VanMar is applying for Station Park D permits (43 floors).
TEK is well on its way to topping out next year so you're looking at 6 years to go from 19 floors as the tallest building to 45 floors as the tallest which is insane for a city of only 300k. Not to mention there is a bunch of other projects in the pipeline that are over 20 floors that should be getting started in the next 5 years (some are dependent on condo sales, others are rental however). So it's certainly going to be interesting to see the change in Kitchener from 2019-2029.
Waterloo and Cambridge are well behind in terms of height however, Waterloo has some decent density in Northdale but uptown is still fairly lacking, same thing can be said about all of Cambridge.
rdaner
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Thanks! Though it isn’t uncommon for EU cities of this size to have LRT lines KW may be the smallest area in NA to have one which accounts for much of the rapid increase in density.