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These are now the tallest approved buildings in Waterloo (35s), surpassing the King/John building (30s).

This was approved at last nights council meeting with absolutely no opposition (even from the most NIMBY councillor). The most interesting thing about it is that at the original meeting in October there wasn't any discussion on it and yesterday there was no discussion either, most projects that...

It will be the tallest along Hespeler Rd if it is approved, the current tallest approved project is a 17 & 13 floor project at Can-Amera Pkwy. However this isn't really in Hespeler per say since it's in the middle of the commercial/industrial area between Can-Amera and the 401. However if the...

NAVCAN has responded back to VanMar and the city with regards to the development. Although this isn't in the AZR of the airport it is actually still affecting it due to its height which is why NAVCAN had to review everything. Nothing will change to the building itself after NAVCANs review, thus...

I wouldn't say that KW's Flexity Freedoms are without their issues. Certainly they work 99% of the time but they have an innate ability to not run in freezing rain. It doesn't matter how much notice is given that there will be freezing rain you can basically guarantee that the system shuts down...

I will note that the 4.5 billion price tag is the high end of the current estimate. It was said in one of the council meetings or a report to council I do not remember which one that the 4.5 billion amount was the upper bound of the range and that it really ranged from 2.25 billion (-25) to 4.5...

Thats just the crane for Tower C. There's actually a second crane on site that's tucked around the corner close to tower B to allow that section of underground parking to be completed since the main crane can't reach that far. A random piece of trivia is the tower crane closest to tower B (not...

There's an Instagram account called pancanadianskylines that has some massing models of Canadian cities including KW, I wouldn't be surprised if someone on here is the person behind it. I did message them awhile ago with a list of a bunch of buildings that were missing from their KW model and...

We certainly have a lot of them and on most road reconstruction projects they build even more, a few major intersections are planned to be converted in the coming years, however the regional engineers can't design them to be safe for pedestrians or cyclists.

Physically under construction is actually more around 2400, (TEK Tower, 900 King St W, Bright Building, 134 Shanley, 387 King St E, Vertikal 1 and 2, 64 Margaret, Station Park 2A). A few of those projects are really close to occupying which would drop that number by roughly 300. KWC is...

Value engineering

The Region had settled on Ottawa St as the next Regional Intensification Corridor before the province even got to review it. In the August 2020 Technical Brief on the Intensification Strategy Ottawa St, Victoria St, University Ave/Erb St/Ira Needles Blvd were marked as potential Regional...

It's from ROPA 6 (Regional Official Plan Amendment 6). When you go reading it says the following in section 2.D.3.5, As part of the next update to the Region’s Transportation Master Plan, the Region, in collaboration with the area municipalities, will examine the potential for establishing a...

The problem when the line was getting built is completely different than it is now. When it was getting built so many things got VE because if it cost anymore than it did it would not have gotten built and we still wouldn't have a LRT line. The service changes that the region wants to do is...

Any project to increase speeds through Kitchener are years off but there are so many simple fixes that can be done right now to make it that much faster. Some of the reason why it is so slow at various places along the line are honestly peculiar and many of them aren't excessively hard to fix...

Thankfully that view is not the majority. Sure the LRT was costly but we spend billions of dollars on highway projects what's wrong with doing the same for transit? There are definitely problems with phase 1 that need to be worked out before phase 2 begins operations particularly the freezing...

It may seem insane to anyone who has any interest in infrastructure but Mayor Liggett has said some pretty absurd things through her time as mayor in relation to development/infrastructure. With regards to moving the end all the way down Dundas (T4) she said this "I have grave concerns. I think...

The podium on Charlie West was definitely a let down in comparison to the renders but at least they tried something different to cover the parking podium and while it doesn't look the best it is definitely more intriguing then DTK podium with those wacky neon lights.

One can hope that Edge and Neo projects actually come to fruition in the region since they never look horrible, Market Flats and Otis/Ophelia were done by them and definitely aren't top tier but they're better than the crap SRM does. Neo also has done the work for 459 Mill and if Polocorp...

I don't have any inside knowledge about the project but it definitely wouldn't be surprising considering TEK Tower is 45 and this is just down the street.