That parking lot is owned by Manulife, they had a proposal for two towers that got to the site plan stage but since then it's gone stagnant. If they do go forward with it again it's going to be completely redesigned since the density originally proposed is nothing compared to what the rest of...

The Region already owns everything that they needed for the transit hub to go ahead, the platforms as well as the transit hub is on land the Region previously owned between King and Duke. Everything for the transit hub was self contained to that site. Phase 1 which includes the bus...

Another thing is that the contract that the RoW signed with Grandlinq only mentioned peak headways of around 7.5 minutes, there are currently enough trains for doubles. The region has 15 trains and during peak times there are 5 sitting in the yard so they could certainly run doubles. However...

Vive now has conditional site plan approval for this project, the two towers are now 29 and 11 floors down from 30 and 11. They applied for demolition permits late last year for all of the properties on the site, the largest existing building on the site (1027 King St E) needs a HIA since it is...

It certainly happens all the time it's really up to the developer themselves. In Kitchener at least Charlie West, 100 Vic Tower 2, and Garment St all had the climbing frame installed once it was required, they were all installed without requiring the dismantling of the crane. Drewlo Tower 2 will...

The plan since early 2021 has been to have the site phased. Phase 1 is the most critical portion of the project and it's expected to be done in 2027, it is also the only part funded, it will contain Metrolinx platforms, tunnels, and amenities, it will also include the regions bus terminal...

In KW the same LRVs are used and the breaking on them is honestly quite amazing so it would be pretty absurd to have a slow order through intersections. In KW there are a few intersections where the LRVs always go slow but that is generally when the LRV is approaching a station or the transit...

Since the LRVs used on the Crosstown and KWs LRT are from the same contract there is little difference between the trains, conceivably they will be identical. KWs LRVs have buttons on both the inside and outside, they also use the TTC chime. In KW the way it works really depends on the time of...

Another thing about the Aud is it's right along where the region is doing very initial planning work for a phase 3 LRT. Obviously things can change but as per ROPA 6 (Regional Official Plan Amendment 6) Ottawa St is marked as a future higher order transit route. In particular section 2.D.3.5...

The 50 acre requirement is something that has been actually been revised a few times, when they were originally making the criteria they were thinking upwards of 60-70. The location is something that is constantly debated about on KWs reddit pages every single time there is a news article about...

This is a new 2 tower development proposed at 236 Victoria St N. The developer is Falco Group, they've been around for awhile but it appears that they just hold land and flip it. The architect is Reinders+Law. The proposal is for two towers, 1 at 40 floors and 1 at 35 floors. The project will...

This is a proposal for downtown Kitchener that has been floating around for a few years now but nothing has materialized yet as the property has switched hands at least once. The property is located at the corner of Weber St W and Ontario St N, it currently contains a commercial building and a...

They now have the permit for the 17 floor building, it will have 215 units. Overall the site will contain 538 units. I don't have a picture of the site but when I drove by a week or two ago there were forms visible above grade. I don't know how accurate this render is but it's from Marshall...

I have no idea about Hamilton but Kitchener has the following approved, proposed and under construction over 25 storeys just in the downtown core. There are 4 over 50, 8 over 40, 13 over 30 and another 8 over 25. Of those 3 are well under construction and another 2 are in sales. A few of the...

With the new zoning rules set to come into place early next year 25% of the downtown core (GRH to Mill MTSAs) will be zoned for unlimited height so the 50+ storey buildings will keep on coming, much to the demise of the NIMBYs.

There's nothing wrong with being a small city but the urbanization and condos close to each other is coming it just takes time, Hamilton has always had a larger downtown then KW but KW also has two downtowns/uptowns for a urban area of similar population, if there was only 1 downtown it would...

That's also a relatively old picture, it's from early 2022 just based on the progress at Breithaupt Block. I don't have a recent picture but here's another one from around the same time (slightly later by about a month or two) showing all of downtown. All the buildings with tower cranes up...

If we're getting technically you could say there is really 5 different downtowns if Cambridge is included but that's an entirely different conversation.

I can tell you for a fact having an LRT doesn't mean anything in terms of selling units. Just use KW as an example there's an LRT and loads of high tech but absolutely nothing is selling, Zehr Group was originally planning on launching 660 Belmont this year and that hasn't happened, Momentum...

Wonderful things happen when you build public transit that is frequent and reliable. Halifax and London are the closest CMAs in terms of population (Halifax is smaller by 100k) but regardless KWC blows them away by miles. I don't have all the data for the cities but Kitchener has approved around...