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The original location of the municipal seat was on the block bound by King, Frederick, Duke and Scott streets and home today to Market Square Shopping Centre; the first city hall was built in 1919 by William Henry Eugene Schmalz (son of Mayor W.H. Schmalz) faced King, with the area towards Duke hosting the weekly Kitchener Farmer's Market (operating from 1869 to 1872 which relocated to ...
King Street divides Kitchener's streets into north and south, and Queen Street divides streets into east and west. King Street is the major street of Downtown Kitchener, with such buildings as the Kitchener City Hall and Market Square. Throughout downtown, the street is also lined with shops, boutiques, and nightclubs.
Kitchener is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, about 100 km (62 mi) west of Toronto. It is one of three cities that make up the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and is the regional seat. Kitchener was known as Berlin until a 1916 referendum changed its name.
Kitchener City Hall is a stop on the Region of Waterloo's Ion rapid transit system. [1] It is located alongside Duke Street, just east of Young Street, in downtown Kitchener. Just west of the station is its namesake, Kitchener City Hall .
The Gaukel street entrance features a clock tower which was once atop the old Kitchener City Hall (from 1924 and now site of Market Square Shopping Centre), and before that, the town's fire hall. It was moved to the park entrance and complemented with a fountain and a sculpture of luggage, by local artist Ernest Daetwyler, symbolizing the ...
A wedding chapel is a building or room, other than a legal court, where marriages are regularly performed. Usually wedding chapels are for-profit venues to host weddings in resort areas to encourage hotel room stays, catering and gambling by the guests. The buildings are generally religiously themed and imitate church architecture. In some ...
A new proposal in 2010 would study only the merger of Kitchener and Waterloo, with a public referendum on whether the idea should be looked into. Kitchener residents voted 2–1 in favour of studying the merger while Waterloo residents voted 2–1 against. Waterloo city council voted against the study. [70]
The tallest building completed in the Region is in Kitchener with the 130.7 m (429 ft) DTK Condos at the corner of Duke and Frederick St, this can be seen in the center of the image to the right. The majority of the high-rises in the area are in Kitchener, however Waterloo has a significant amount in the Northdale area.