ZEBuilder
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The City of Kitchener has been looking at building a new fire station in downtown Kitchener for a couple of years now, response times have been below industry standard 43% of the time based on the staff report. Likewise Station 2, the station covering downtown, is the busiest station (approaching 4000 calls a year in 2019) which meant there were situations where it was already responding to a call in its south area of service and then got a call in it's north area which meant stations from further south of it's service area had to respond causing some horrible response times.
Here's the report on the need for a new station: DTK New Fire Station Staff Report
There have been various locations contemplated for the station, for example Vive's 87 Weber project was a location that was contemplated, the rendering on page 14 of the Urban Design Brief for that project still has the rendering with the station, that area is all retail now.
Since then the city has now bought two pieces of land 870 King and 850 King St E for this new station. The intent for the site is to build the station and include housing units on site. The current goal is 150 units of mixed size and income. Some of the money that the city got from the province for exceeding their housing target has gone towards this project. The intent is to have ground broken by the end of 2026.
As for the site itself it is zoned SGA-2 which will allow for an 8 floor building to go onto the site. The site in total is 1.34 acres in size. It did have two buildings on site. In one of the buildings there was a grocery store, it has moved across the street to the ground floor of 387 King St E (no UT thread for this but completed in 2024). The other one that I know about was a AYCE Sushi restaurant that has moved down to the Sportsworld area of Kitchener.
As for the buildings on site they are now demolished and geotech work has occurred.
Site as of August 14th:
Here's the report on the need for a new station: DTK New Fire Station Staff Report
There have been various locations contemplated for the station, for example Vive's 87 Weber project was a location that was contemplated, the rendering on page 14 of the Urban Design Brief for that project still has the rendering with the station, that area is all retail now.
Since then the city has now bought two pieces of land 870 King and 850 King St E for this new station. The intent for the site is to build the station and include housing units on site. The current goal is 150 units of mixed size and income. Some of the money that the city got from the province for exceeding their housing target has gone towards this project. The intent is to have ground broken by the end of 2026.
As for the site itself it is zoned SGA-2 which will allow for an 8 floor building to go onto the site. The site in total is 1.34 acres in size. It did have two buildings on site. In one of the buildings there was a grocery store, it has moved across the street to the ground floor of 387 King St E (no UT thread for this but completed in 2024). The other one that I know about was a AYCE Sushi restaurant that has moved down to the Sportsworld area of Kitchener.
As for the buildings on site they are now demolished and geotech work has occurred.
Site as of August 14th: