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U/C 328 Regina Street North | 54 m | 18 fl

Post #29977 Unknown date Unknown Author	328 Regina Street North Formerly 324 and 328 Regina Street North 18 storey \| 97 unit \| 485 bedroom student housing
Post #29978 05-24-2011 11:29 AM Unknown Author Town Member Waterloo Joined Feb 2010 430 posts	Fences are up and demolition will probably occur around the same time as this company demos their other property on King Street.
Post #29982 05-24-2011 12:41 PM Unknown Author City Member Kitchener Joined Oct 2010 954 posts	It's astonishing how much more capacity is coming on the market.
Post #29983 05-24-2011 01:50 PM Unknown Author City Member Kitchener Waterloo Joined Oct 2010 603 posts Benjamin Bach \| Real Estate Sales Rep @ Cushman & Wakefield Waterloo Region Ltd. brokerage. Not intended to solicit clients or properties under contract.	Originally Posted by markster It's astonishing how much more capacity is coming on the market. Yup. 10,000 new beds over the next couple of years
Post #29988 05-24-2011 02:49 PM Unknown Author Urban Issues Moderator Joined Jul 2010 1641 posts	Originally Posted by benjaminbach Yup. 10,000 new beds over the next couple of years Meanwhile, the University of Waterloo says: "Waterloo is likely to admit about as many first-year students this year as last year." while enrollment in the Waterloo campus of WLU actually went down a couple of years back as the double cohort completed its way through the system.
Post #29989 05-24-2011 03:34 PM Unknown Author City Member Kitchener Joined Oct 2010 954 posts	Not to mention that the Baby Boom Echo is just about finishing their way through University right now. I don't think that we'll be seeing rental prices climbing much over the next decade...
Post #29990 05-24-2011 04:05 PM Unknown Author Town Member Waterloo Joined Feb 2010 430 posts	Laurier dipped the year right after double cohort but picked up again overall. I don't think you will see a drastic dip for a while as the Universities continue to pursue international and out of province markets to fill any void... a void which has yet to be seen (applications continue to increase). These large scale projects will definitely keep rental rates lower though. A benefit is student rental units outside of the immediate area become extremely less appealing saving other neighbourhoods from becoming ghetto-ized. As for Northdale... errr... I dunno. I believe in intensification but these projects are not much improvement. Something really needs to be done at the City level. Increased housing, but no increase/improvement to sidewalks, pedestrian crossings, bike lanes, public transit or mixed-zoning usage... disaster!
Post #29991 05-24-2011 04:15 PM Unknown Author Sports & Recreation Moderator Kitchener Joined Jan 2010 1387 posts	This will become a landmark in Waterloo.... boy I wish 275 King st North would have been built, to set an example for the entire neighbourhood.
Post #29992 05-24-2011 04:16 PM Unknown Author Urban Issues Moderator Joined Jul 2010 1641 posts	Originally Posted by WatDot A benefit is student rental units outside of the immediate area become extremely less appealing saving other neighbourhoods from becoming ghetto-ized. Agree 100%. For many years city council tried to stop the overtaking of neighbourhoods with ineffective distance separation regulations. They didn't work as Northdale, Lester, Marshall, Bricker st residents can attest. Our neighbourhood also was slowly becoming student-dominated until large developments were allowed on Columbia. Since then the number of student rentals has gone down. Let's also not forget that monster houses were the creation of city council, since for many years they refused to allow proper rental units to be built anywhere within the city. Now that proper rentals are allowed developers greatly favour proper buildings over conversions to monster houses.
Post #30021 05-25-2011 03:18 PM Unknown Author Moderator Kitchener-Waterloo Joined Dec 2009 5693 posts	May 25, 2011
Post #30022 05-25-2011 04:01 PM Unknown Author Metropolis Member Waterloo, ON Joined Jan 2010 2122 posts	Wow. In an area still dominated by detached houses, we're demolishing mid-rise apartment buildings to build high-rises? Really? And for that matter, it's replacing 2- and 3-bedroom housing stock with 5-bedroom student-only units.
Post #30023 05-25-2011 04:11 PM Unknown Author Town Member Toronto/KW Joined Mar 2010 261 posts	Originally Posted by mpd618 Wow. In an area still dominated by detached houses, we're demolishing mid-rise apartment buildings to build high-rises? Really? And for that matter, it's replacing 2- and 3-bedroom housing stock with 5-bedroom student-only units. It's sad, but these aren't exactly the prettiest mid-rises so I'm not overly upset.
Post #30024 05-25-2011 06:00 PM Unknown Author Urban Issues Moderator Belmont Villiage Joined Dec 2009 443 posts The opinions expressed in my messages may not be the shared opinions of Wonderful Waterloo E-mail me! - accessibility@wonderfulwaterloo.com	Those places are dumps anyway. It will take at least 3 years to make a big building look that bad. I'm actually happy to have them develop this kind of building on that section of Regina. It means it isn't somewhere offensive, like King Street. I still have hope for Northdale's interior, although, it is minimal. The city planners don't want to let people do anything but sleep in that neighborhood.
Post #30025 05-25-2011 06:26 PM Unknown Author Metropolis Member Waterloo, ON Joined Jan 2010 2122 posts	Aesthetically, I was thinking it might be a wash. And then I realized that those mature trees stand no chance.
Post #30031 05-25-2011 07:27 PM Unknown Author Urban Issues Moderator Joined Jul 2010 1641 posts	Originally Posted by mpd618 Aesthetically, I was thinking it might be a wash. And then I realized that those mature trees stand no chance. I think the added density of that area is likely to lead into the development of a nice urban destination, something that Waterloo didn't have until very recently, when uptown and Belmont village started becoming places to go to.
Post #30036 05-25-2011 10:17 PM Unknown Author Town Member Waterloo Joined Feb 2010 430 posts	The City needs to start encouraging mixed use on these major streets though. I can't see the interior streets of Northdale eventually becoming home to businesses and places of employment, with the major roadways being strictly intensified residential (student) developments. Kind of backwards in my opinion.
Post #30117 05-30-2011 10:26 AM Unknown Author Town Member Waterloo Joined Feb 2010 430 posts	Demo is underway this morning.
Post #30431 06-06-2011 01:25 PM Unknown Author Moderator Kitchener-Waterloo Joined Dec 2009 5693 posts	The southern building has been completely demolished... June 3, 2011
Post #30440 06-06-2011 03:42 PM Unknown Author Town Member Kitchener Joined May 2010 132 posts	I feel really strange about 328 coming down. The unit on the first floor, front right hand corner (looking from the street was the first place my future wife and I ever lived together in. Won't miss the building but I'll miss the memories!
Post #30506 06-08-2011 12:57 AM Unknown Author Urban Issues Moderator Joined Jul 2010 1641 posts	Originally Posted by BuildingScout Meanwhile, the University of Waterloo says: "Waterloo is likely to admit about as many first-year students this year as last year." Preliminary data is out and 1st year enrollments at uWaterloo are down 3% as planned. Overall enrollment including graduate programs is expected to go up by about 300 students. Number of beds slated to open this Fall? at least 1800.