BMO
Senior Member
Waterloo is going to be so different once this is finished. I'll hardly be able to recognize it since I went there for University.
Waterloo is going to be so different once this is finished. I'll hardly be able to recognize it since I went there for University.
When did you go there for University? For anyone who finished prior to 2004, I guarantee that the City and University are already nearly unrecognizable.
The towers of King St N, the massive infill of the University grounds, 4-laning and redevelopment of Columbia Ave, Waterloo Town Square Mall redevelopment, and now towers springing up in the Northdale area have already radically changed the town over the past 10 years.
When did you go there for University? For anyone who finished prior to 2004, I guarantee that the City and University are already nearly unrecognizable.
The towers of King St N, the massive infill of the University grounds, 4-laning and redevelopment of Columbia Ave, Waterloo Town Square Mall redevelopment, and now towers springing up in the Northdale area have already radically changed the town over the past 10 years.
Getting a bit off-topic, but a lot of those new highrise towers, especially around University and King, are butt-ugly private student rental buildings. The condos closer to Uptown Waterloo and Downtown Kitchener will drive ridership a lot more (and on the whole, they look better too).
Getting a bit off-topic, but a lot of those new highrise towers, especially around University and King, are butt-ugly private student rental buildings. The condos closer to Uptown Waterloo and Downtown Kitchener will drive ridership a lot more (and on the whole, they look better too).
Those are the old ones before Waterloo fixed the zoning. Here's an example of the buildings now going up in the University District: one- and two-bedroom rentals with commercial at ground level, parking rates of 0.25 per bedroom, and interesting design.
The concrete blocks are for a berm/embankment to build up a vertical surface.