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Nine-storey hotel proposed on UW campus would cater to tech firms, hospital visitors
The University of Waterloo has partnered with a private developer to seek approval from Waterloo city council for a Hyatt-branded hotel.
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June 24, 2025 - The University of Waterloo is proposing a nine-storey hotel with 216 rooms, conference space and a banquet facility in its research and technology park.
The Hyatt-branded hotel is slated for a vacant, school-owned site at 380 Hagey Blvd. in the north campus. It’s near the location of a new hospital that may open by 2034 or later to serve Kitchener and Waterloo.
The hotel would cater to people visiting technology firms and to people visiting hospital patients.
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The university is partnering on the hotel with Kothari Group, a development firm specializing in hotels....
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A conceptual rendering of a Hyatt hotel proposed on the University of Waterloo north campus at 380 Hagey Blvd. Goldberg Group
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Waterloo promotes ‘housing that folks can actually afford’ in taxpayer-funded project
Dignitaries gathered Thursday to hear details of more than 1,000 subsidized units to be built near RIM Park.
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June 26, 2025 - Waterloo City Hall is behind in its housing goals but declared progress Thursday around a taxpayer-funded plan to put more than 1,000 homes beside the RIM Park recreation complex.
Construction is scheduled to start next year at 2025 University Ave. E., in the city’s northeast corner.
Habitat for Humanity plans to build affordable and attainable units, rented and owned, on a vacant municipal site that city hall has transferred to the housing charity and its partners.
The federal government provided a housing grant of up to $22 million to cover city costs.
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City hall is driving a separate housing project that could bring 1,800 apartments and townhouses to a site nearby on University Avenue East. That’s after council sold other vacant land to developer Paul Leveck.
City hall also plans 25 or more affordable dwellings on a former church property that council recently purchased on Lincoln Road.
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Dignitaries promote a Waterloo housing project Thursday. From left: Philip Mills (Habitat for Humanity), Coun. Diane Freeman, Mayor Dorothy McCabe, Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger, Larry Sault (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation), Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae. Jeff Outhit
The red outline shows the Waterloo location of an affordable housing project proposed by Habitat for Humanity on land owned by city hall. City of Waterloo graphic
A rendering of an affordable housing complex of 1,010 units proposed by Habitat for Humanity in Waterloo. City of Waterloo graphic
An affordable housing complex of 1,010 units is proposed by Habitat for Humanity in Waterloo. City of Waterloo graphic
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Highrise eyed for congested corner in Cambridge
The development is proposed on a wooded lot at the corner of Dundas Street South and Branchton Road in southeast Galt.
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June 27, 2025 - A developer wants to build a 13-storey highrise apartment building at a busy Cambridge intersection.
The development is proposed on a wooded lot at the corner of Dundas Street South and Branchton Road in southeast Galt.
The vacant site at 1280 Dundas St. S. is covered with mature trees and is zoned for low-density homes, such as single-family houses or townhouses.
But Crown Land Holdings Inc. has applied to the city to change that.
It is asking the city to update the land use rules so it can build a 13-storey apartment with 88 units and 124 parking spots — most of them underground. The building would have a mix of one- and two-bedroom units along with shared outdoor space for residents....
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A 13-storey highrise apartment is proposed at the corner of Dundas Street South and Branchton Road in southeast Galt. GSP Group
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Developer plans 24-storey tower beside 24-hour McDonald’s in Waterloo
City council has approved 185 apartments in the building but construction may be two or three years away.
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June 28, 2025 - Waterloo city council has approved a 24-storey apartment tower near King and Columbia streets that may not be built for several years.
A Guelph developer intends it to replace a commercial plaza at 354 King St. N. The property is beside a busy, 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant.
“We, of course, encourage people to move as quickly as possible on these projects because we know we need the housing,” Mayor Dorothy McCabe said when told construction is two to three years away.
Waterloo is in a housing crisis that has escalated rents and costs and has priced people out of the market. The city is adding homes at less than half the pace required to move past the crisis.
The new tower is proposed with 185 apartments. This includes 112 units with one bedroom, 54 with two bedrooms and 19 with three...
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Rendering of a proposed 24-storey apartment tower at 354 King St. N. in Waterloo. GSP Group
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@ZEBuilder 06-27-2025
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Auburn has submitted a ZBA/OPA for the last 3 buildings on the site (the one between the Delta Hotel and the existing towers (K), and the two fronting Father David Bauer(F/G)).
Parking is no longer legally required anywhere in Ontario as per Bill 185 within MTSAs, Kitchener got ahead of that with Growing Together but the province has forced it on all other municipalities with MTSAs. Auburn is still providing 293 spaces for building K (1.07 per unit) and 690 spaces for building F/G (1.13 per unit) in a 6 floor podium. Auburn is providing 167 bicycle spaces for building K and 370 spaces for F and G.
Building K will be 18 floors, with the F and G being 31 floors a piece.
The 18 floor tower is pretty standard, it looks identical to the last two that Auburn has built on the site, it will include 206 1bdrm or 1bdrm+den units as well as 69 2bdrm or 2bdrm+den units. With the average unit sizes being 573, 703, 923, 1062 sqft respectively.
The 31 floor towers will include 415 1bdrm or 1bdrm+den units as well as 199 2bdrm or 2bdrm+den units. The sizes are all similar to those in Building K.
The entire podium of the 31 floor towers is allotted to parking, the renderings show masking of the parking podium with a screening material that has barrels and wheat printed on it. Given Auburn will retain ownership of this (they also have their name on the podium facing Erb/Father David Bauer) it wouldn't surprise me if they followed through, or we could get a bait and switch like Duke Tower, either way the parking podium on this is significant.
The documents can all be found on Waterloo's Engage page here: Father David Bauer Dr and Merchant Dr planning application | EngageWR
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170 & 180 Columbia St W Waterloo | 41 fl | Proposed
@ZEBuilder 06-27-2025
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This is a five tower development right at the LRT tracks and Columbia. It's on the NE corner (only portion not owned by UW). The developer behind this is IN8.
The project itself is located at 170 and 180 Columbia St W. 170 Columbia will contain 2 towers both at 41 floors and be phase 1 and 2 of the site. With 180 Columbia representing phase 3-5 and have heights of 37-41 floors.
The project will include retail at grade fronting Columbia as well as internal to the site along access roads. They are all small units similar to most retail spaces in and around Northdale.
There will be a POPS between phase 1 and 2 of the site. The site is fairly evenly split between 1bdrm/bachelors and 2bdrm units with 1256 2bdrm units and 1182 1bdrm/bachelor units.
There is very minimal parking (If this is rental it will targeted towards students, if not it will be investors targeting students). In total there will be 587 parking spaces for the 2438 units (including visitor). There will also be 1605 bicycle spaces including in the development.
One thing to note is that the existing traffic signal at the entrance to the site will be removed (this is already approved) as the Region will be installing a signalized pedestrian crossover at the LRT tracks (similar to the one at University). The development will however require a traffic signal to be installed slightly closer to Phillip where there is another entrance to the development (where it says ROW on the site plan).
Another thing to note is UW is intending to phase the redevelopment of EC in the coming years, it's been identified in their master plan update that they are currently working on. So it would not be surprising if UW intends for significantly higher heights if this were to be approved.
The documents can be found here: 170 to 180 Columbia St W | EngageWR
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3D Rendering of the Proposed Development facing North along Laurel Trail from the University of Waterloo Campus
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