Kitchener Verde Condos | 26.3m | 8s | JD Development Group

[ZEBuilder]

This is a project that has been going on for awhile much like a bunch of Kitchener projects. This site was originally part of the Kitchener Landfill and continued to be an operations facility until it was sold. The site was sold to Downing Street Group who have since cleaned up the contaminates on the site (VOCs, PAHs, and heavy metals). They have partnered with both JD Development Group and Averton homes for the various residential portions of the site. Overall the site when complete will contain stacked townhomes, a retail block and then 2 8 floor condos. The stacked townhomes are being developed by Averton while the condos, being marketed as Verde Condos is being developed by JD Developments with Downing Street overseeing the entire site.

Construction originally started with demolition and soil remediation which occurred in 2015 and 2016. The site then sat empty for a couple of years until the sales office was built for the first block of townhomes, at the time this was being advertised as "Aria Towns" by Aberdeen Homes, in 2018 Aberdeen Homes sold their portion of the site to Averton Homes, the exact details aren't public however, at this point the townhomes were rebranded as "Parkside Urban Towns". In 2020 construction started on the site with the initial site services going in for Parkside Phase 1, this included creating a new private road named Palace St as well as Huntsworth Ave. In the years since the site servicing has continued as Averton has progressed across the site with site servicing for the final phase (Parkside Urban Towns Phase 3) presently occurring.

In 2021 construction started on the first phase of Parkside Urban Towns with completion occurring in late 2022 or early 2023, at this point Averton moved to Phase 2 which is currently progressing with cladding material going up.

The 2 8 floor condos are also currently under construction, with work just getting to grade recently. They have two tower cranes up on the site but work is progressing rather slow. The concrete subtrade involved on the site is Limen, shoring work was done by HCM, I don't remember who the excavation contractor was on site but it was one of the larger local ones in Kitchener.

Parkside Phase 1:

Parkside Phase 2 (Taken from Google Maps (July 2024)):

Verde Condos (these photos are from July 1, I haven't taken any since then but it is now at ground level):

Two cranes with Uptown Waterloo in the distance

 

[ZEBuilder]

I went by around New Years and the tower closest to Elmsdale had only a small handful of columns completed and the further tower was almost at grade. Earlier this week I went by again and they were onto the second floor of the first tower courtesy of precast. The precast is supplied by Stubbe's as is almost all of the precast in the KW area.

January 20 2025

 

[ZEBuilder]

Since the last set of photos they had a couple of weeks in late January/early February where very little happened on the first tower since Limen (concrete forming contractor) took down their tower crane and another crane was put up, pieces for that second crane were stagged in the parking lot of the nearby Zehrs. This thing is flying but given it's precast it isn't all that surprising, they're completing roughly a floor a week. It is not crazy to say the first building will be topped out by the end of April with the second tower topped out by later summer/early fall if the pace stays the same.

March 12th:

March 17th (start of the 5th floor):

March 30th:

 

[cranehunter123]

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looks topped off.

 

[YongeBloor]

End of Year Update: 1 crane can be removed @Paclo @interchange42, still one up at the back of the condos, but I imagine it will come down early in the new year. Townhomes look to be complete and occupied, with work still underway on the condos. @ZEBuilder might be able to give a more accurate assessment of whats left on this site.