01-08-2010 12:31 PM
UrbanWaterloo
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Small Suburban Waterloo Construction
A thread for general news and/or rumors. Things that are small enough they don't require their own threads.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinio...444527529.html
01-24-2010 01:25 PM
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01-24-2010 01:31 PM
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This building I believe is part of Conestoga College's Waterloo Campus I haven't had much luck finding out what it is exactly.
01-24-2010 01:42 PM
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01-24-2010 02:05 PM
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01-24-2010 02:26 PM
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This is of an office building under construction on Marsland dr in Waterloo. Looks like it is really comming along.
01-25-2010 11:28 AM
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332 Marsland Drive, Waterloo
http://www.loopnet.com/xNet/Looplink...SRID=735351341
Total Space Available: 25,942 SF
Description: Presitigious spec office building located adjacent to Hillside Park within close proximity of Conestoga College & Wilfred Laurier University. Full air conditioned building. 4.4 parking spaces per 1,000 sq.ft. Every floor will have 2 washrooms. The building will be wheelchair accessible with elevator. Near Columbia Street E
01-25-2010 08:15 PM
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02-14-2010 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by leaffan 
October 5, 2009 10:35 AM
http://blogs1.conestogac.on.ca/news/...a_and_onta.php
CAMBRIDGE AND WATERLOO, Ontario, September 25, 2009 - The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario) and MP for Cambridge, along with Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Leeanna Pendergast and John Tibbits, President of Conestoga College, today celebrated groundbreakings at the Cambridge and Waterloo campuses of Conestoga College. The college is to receive federal and provincial funding totalling $72 million through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program and Ontario’s 2009 Budget.
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The project also includes a 12,000 square-foot stand-alone facility at the Waterloo campus for the Conestoga/OIRCA Roofing Skills Training Centre and a 10,000-square-foot addition to the main campus building for the HVAC Skills Training Centre. Some funding will be used for an expansion and renovation to support motive power skills training at the Guelph campus. When complete, the entire project will create an additional 2,350 student spaces and 800 new spaces for apprentices.
Conestoga College is partnering with the Alliance of Ontario Food Processors on the Institute for Food Processing Technology in Cambridge and with the Ontario Industrial Roofing Contractors Association (OIRCA) for the Roofing Skills Training Centre in Waterloo.
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"The single biggest factor affecting all stakeholders in the roofing sector today is the lack of a qualified workforce in the numbers necessary to service the needs of the construction industry in this province," said Don B. Marks, executive director of Ontario Industrial Roofing Contractors Association (OIRCA). "We share Conestoga's vision that the Waterloo campus will become the focal point for the recruitment and training of construction workers in southern Ontario. The OIRCA/Conestoga Roofing Skills Training Centre will allow the roofing industry to assume the responsibility to take control and manage its own human resources."
For more information about the Knowledge Infrastructure Program, including program criteria, application instructions and a list of the approved projects to date, please visit www.ic.gc.ca/knowledge-infrastructure.
For information about how the Government of Ontario is helping to build and revitalize infrastructure across the province, please visit www.mei.gov.on.ca/en/infrastructure.
03-12-2010 06:50 AM
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http://www.dtzbarnicke.com/Client/JJ...a!OpenDocument
Lease
- Prime retail/office development located in the King Street/Hwy 85 commercial node.
- Directly across from the St. Jacob's Farmers Market and future Smart Centre development.
- C8 zoning allows for restaurant, medical clinic, financial establishment, automotive, hotel and many other uses.
PROPERTY & LISTING DETAILS
Detailed Description: Retail Building, Office-Retail, Office / Retail
Intersection: Farmers Market Road
Zoning: C8
Total Area: 100,000 sq. ft.
Asking Rate: $15.00 Net
Additional Rent $8.00 /sq.ft.
Availability: Negotiable
Lease Term: Open
PDF: http://www.dtzbarnicke.com/Client/JJ...865_office.pdf
03-12-2010 07:09 AM
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http://www.jjb.com/Client/JJB/JJBNA%...6!OpenDocument
Lease
- High profile site located at Erb and Ira Needles roundabout.
- Across from tenants like Canadian Tire, The Beer Store, Boston Pizza, Shoppers Drug Mark, etc.
- Construction to start April 15, 2010.
PROPERTY & LISTING DETAILS
Detailed Description: Retail / Office
Intersection: Erbsville Road
Zoning: MXC
Building Size: 12712 sf
Asking Rate: $24.00 Net
Additional Rent: $10.00 /sq.ft.
PDF: http://www.jjb.com/Client/JJB/JJBNA%...LE/erb_646.pdf
04-05-2010 10:47 AM
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05-04-2010 03:10 PM
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05-13-2010 10:03 PM
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May 13, 2010
By Luisa D'Amato, Record staff
WATERLOO — Lexington Public School needs a $4.2-million expansion and facelift, including a 13-classroom addition, renovation and a new roof for the gym, and air conditioning for the school, a report to school board trustees says.
The report also recommends building a brand-new elementary school on Falconridge Drive by 2014 in a fast growing area of new homes — with 825 still to be built — around Kiwanis Park.
Trustees received the report Monday, but won’t vote on it until June.
The report was written by an accommodation review committee studying the schools in the eastern part of Kitchener and Waterloo, including Bridgeport, Elizabeth Ziegler, Lexington, Margaret Avenue, Prueter and Suddaby public schools.
An accommodation review committee is a group of parents, principals, staff and city officials who study shifting population trends in a certain area and make recommendations about closing schools, building new ones or changing boundaries.
The schools in the eastern part of Kitchener-Waterloo have room for 2,866 students with the schools that are already there, plus 325 more with the proposed new school on Falconridge Drive, for a total of 3,191 spaces.
There are only 2,429 students attending those schools. Even after population growth on the edge of the city is accounted for, there will only be 2,666 elementary students in 2015, staff predict.
But board planner Lauren Manske said the committee decided not to recommend closing any schools in the area.
“What it came down to is that there was a lot of support for community-level schools,” she said.
“Even if they are underutilized, if you were to take out any of those facilities, you’re abandoning the population in and around any one location.”
Lexington Public School was closed for a time, and reopened in 1993 with a temporary extra wing with the idea that it might close again 15 to 20 years later, after the population started to age.
The committee is recommending a permanent addition with 10 classrooms and three kindergarten rooms, renovations for the gym, and air conditioning. The renovations would be complete by 2012.
“There was very strong support to maintain a community school in the Lexington neighbourhood,” the report said.
As for the school on Falconridge Drive, it would be for junior kindergarten to Grade 6, the report said.
The committee felt it was important that as many students as possible have a school they can walk to. Because of the “relative isolation” of the community around Falconridge Drive, this isn’t possible for the children in that neighbourhood with the existing schools.
The committee also recommended that a small group of children who attend Elizabeth Ziegler School and then go on to Margaret Avenue Public School for Grade 7 and 8 instead be directed to MacGregor Public School for those grades.
This is because these few students lose almost all contact with their classmates from Elizabeth Ziegler for the two years of Grade 7 and 8. Then, most will rejoin their old friends again in Grade 9 at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School.
Allowing the students — there were only three in this position this year — to attend MacGregor with all their friends “will add a little bit of stability for these kids,” said Manske.
To read the full report, go to the public school board’s website at wrdsb.ca and click “About,” then “Board meetings” then “Meeting agendas” and then “Committee of the Whole agenda, May 10.” The report is in the agenda.
05-17-2010 06:04 PM
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http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=w...175.87,,0,9.84
05-21-2010 10:42 AM
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May 21, 2010
By Frances Barrick, Record staff
WATERLOO — The sun streamed into the new apartment units which 30 homeless people will soon call home.
“These are fabulous,” said Tricia Siemens, as she walked into an almost completed one-bedroom unit that will provide shelter to someone who has been living on the streets for at least a year.
“You could see yourself being happy in this home,” said Siemens, who spearheaded this project to provide this city’s first apartment building that will provide daily, 24-hour supportive care.
On Thursday, members of the news media and the group behind the project called Supportive Housing of Waterloo (SHOW) toured the five-storey building at 362 Erb St. W., which will be ready for occupancy June 1. Two of the 30 units, which are about 500 square feet, are wheelchair accessible and the building will be smoke-free.
Group member Jan Lehman shed tears of joy when she saw the outcome of a project has been six years in the making.
“This is wonderful. It is worth every second,” Lehman said.
Most of the 15 members of the board behind SHOW are volunteers at Out of Cold programs and know that the people eating a free meal desperately need housing. There are between 50 and 70 persistent homeless people living on the streets of Waterloo Region.
“This is going to turn their lives around,” said board member John Currie. “They are going to live a normal life again.”
Board members are in the midst of interviewing potential tenants. More than 40 people have applied and a waiting list has been started. Most of the candidates are men, ranging in age from late 30s to early 60s, who have been homeless for about five years. A person must be homeless for at least a year to qualify.
“Some have addiction issues. Others have drug problems. All need support,” Currie said.
Barb Barnes, a board member who has interviewed potential tenants, said many can’t believe they may be soon living in a furnished apartment with support services to help them get back on their feet.
“Many say ‘Wow. This is like Christmas,’ ” said Barnes, adding that one man couldn’t believe he would have his own washroom, instead of sharing one.
Lehman said one man asked her, “Why are you doing this for us?”
“Why would we not?” she said.
Currie said the board is looking for people who want to change their lives and get back into society. “We have had a tremendous response and all of them can’t wait to get in.”
“Our goal is to get them housed and keep them housed,” Siemens added.
Though the project has faced many obstacles, most of them involving money, Siemens said the board was determined to make it happen.
The building cost $5.45 million to build, of which $3.5 million was funded through federal and provincial infrastructure grants. Both the city and region waived development charges. Another $153,000 was provided under a federal homelessness program.
The group has raised $555,000 and plans to mortgage the rest. The mortgage, which will not be locked in for a year, could be less than the projected $910,000 if the group succeeds in getting the $200,000 it owes in GST rescinded and raises more money from the community, Siemens said.
The building’s operating costs will be covered by monthly rent payments of $464.
Round-the-clock supportive care costs $300,000 a year and will be contracted out to groups such as Waterloo Regional Homes for Mental Health and the House of Friendship.
In April, the regional government agreed to provide $225,000 a year toward that cost under its domiciliary hostel program, a cost-shared program with the province. This year, the region will also give a one-time grant of $75,000, but in future the group must cover that cost.
Siemens said fundraising has been challenging because “there are people who don’t understand homelessness and how easily it can happen.
“It hasn’t been just a fundraising campaign. It has been an education campaign as well,” she said.
Marriage breakup is the leading cause of homelessness in Canada, according to a fact sheet provided by the project’s board. Other causes are mental health problems, abuse, poverty and lack of affordable housing.
According to the fact sheet, homeless people are among the least threatening group in society. Most often they are the victims of crime, not the perpetrators.
About four years ago, a homeless man sleeping near the railroad tracks at King Street was set on fire. Another time, an alcoholic sleeping on a local street was beaten and urinated on by a group of youth, the sheet said.
Since homeless people only have what is on their backs, the group has been collecting furniture, linen, dishes and cooking utensils to furnish the apartments. The “Adopt–a-Room” campaign has been very successful, with one church contributing $10,000 toward the purchase of new beds, Lehman said. More donations are needed, she said.
The public can tour the facility at an open house on June 16, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
“Anyone can become homeless. Nobody has to remain homeless,” Lehman said.
fbarrick@therecord.com
05-28-2010 07:42 PM
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@ Waterloo Campus
Placement to the west of the Conestoga - Ontario Masonry Training Centre
05-28-2010 08:02 PM
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06-01-2010 02:59 PM
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May 27, 2010 10:38 AM | http://blogs1.conestogac.on.ca/news/...roofing_sk.php
More than 100 industry, education and government representatives gathered on May 25 in Waterloo for the official opening of the new, 12,400 sq. ft. Conestoga/OIRCA Roofing Skills Training Centre, a project of Conestoga and the Ontario Industrial Roofing Contractors Association.
In order to promote economic development, increase educational opportunity and help the institution grow to meet employer needs, Conestoga has received federal and provincial funding totalling $72 million for new and expanded Conestoga facilities in Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge and Guelph, through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program and Ontario's 2009 Budget.
The Knowledge Infrastructure Program (KIP), a two-year, $2 billion economic stimulus measure to support infrastructure enhancement at Canadian post-secondary institutions, is part of the $12 billion in new infrastructure investment allocated under Canada's Economic Action Plan. The KIP is providing real economic stimulus and employment by creating local jobs for engineers, architects, tradespeople and technicians. It is also helping to generate the advanced technological infrastructure needed to keep Canada's research and educational facilities at the forefront of scientific advancement.
Speaking at the May 25 event, the Hon. Gary Goodyear, MP for Cambridge, Minister of State for Science and Technology and Minister of State responsible for the Federal Development Agency for Southern Ontario, said, "It is clear that colleges, with their many strengths, are deserving of federal funding support. Our plan is not just to create jobs for today, which KIP projects certainly do, but also to create the better jobs of tomorrow. All this is possible because of all levels of government working together - federal, provincial and municipal."
"The opening of the new Roofing Skills Centre at Conestoga College is a marvelous example of our community building and growing together," said Leeanna Pendergast, MPP for Kitchener-Conestoga. "This timely collaboration is meeting an important industry's need for highly skilled tradespersons who will train at this state-of-the-art facility. The Ontario government is very pleased to make this significant commitment since it will undoubtedly lead to immediate job creation and strengthen our local economy for many years to come."
The Government of Ontario, in its 2009 budget - Confronting the Challenge: Building Ontario's Economic Future -- is committed to investing in infrastructure and has designated $780 million to colleges and universities to modernize facilities and boost long-term research and skills training capacity over the next two years.
The Conestoga/OIRCA facility is at Conestoga's Waterloo campus site and sits adjacent to the Conestoga/OMTC Masonry Training Centre, which officially opened in the spring of 2009. The roofing facility features two spacious classroom areas, a large shop area presenting space to work on a number of roofing skills projects employing various techniques, and an outdoor, canopied project work area. Its opening marks another step in Conestoga's goal of creating at Waterloo a centre of excellence for construction trades skills. The main campus building in Waterloo also houses Conestoga's many culinary skills programs, and students from those programs prepared and served all the refreshments at the May 25 event.
Conestoga President John Tibbits told the event audience, "We've had excellent partnerships with industry and government in creating these training centres for masonry and roofing skills. It's worth noting that these projects have been completed on time and on budget. The benefits from these projects and others now underway at Conestoga include not only the considerable person-hours of work created in our communities, but also the imparting of high-value skills education for those communities and the expansion of learning opportunities to many thousands of additional students."
Ontario's roofing industry is currently facing a significant challenge due to a lack of skilled tradespeople entering this profession. This multi-disciplinary trade, which blends principles from design, architecture, engineering and various forms of construction, requires highly trained individuals to master modern project delivery. It further requires a significant bridging of knowledge from current practitioners to newly trained professionals, who are well versed in the use of the latest materials and techniques.
On behalf of OIRCA, Executive Director Don Marks stated, "The key to a strong economy for our future lies in the college system. I feel that the Waterloo campus will become a major portal for the future of our industry-whether through young people discovering an excellent career option, students seeking new directions through initiatives like Second Career, or the improvement of skills for those already employed in the trade."
CONTACT: Conestoga - John Sawicki, jsawicki@conestogac.on.ca; Julie Gillis, jgillis@conestogac.on.ca | OIRCA - Don Marks, 416-695-4114, 1-888-336-4722
06-01-2010 05:46 PM
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