{"id":1226,"date":"2025-04-20T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:10:19","slug":"from-heritage-to-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/uncategorized\/from-heritage-to-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"From Heritage to Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A series of talks sponsored by ACO’s North Waterloo Region Branch <\/a>is living proof of the merits of Architectural Conservancy Ontario (ACO)’s campaign for provincial funding to turn heritage into housing.<\/p>\n

Each talk focuses on a Waterloo Region heritage building adaptively repurposed as housing — deeply affordable housing in two of the three examples. Only one of the buildings is a designated heritage landmark, a requirement ACO recommends for a proposed provincial grant program, in the hopes it will encourage more protection of our valuable — and very useful — heritage resources.<\/p>\n

The first talk, by historical researcher Sandra Parks was held on March 27.\u00a0 It focused on the 1913 Greb Shoe Factory building.\u00a0 After 43 years as a shoe factory, 21 years as an Electrohome factory and 23 years as J.C. Snyder Furniture Factory, the sturdy brick building became a Lofts on Mansion<\/a> containing 54 condo units in 2005.<\/p>\n

The second talk at 7 pm on Thursday April 24, featured Graham Cubitt and Linda Nydam.\u00a0 They presented on their experience managing Indwell\u2019s transformation of heritage and older buildings to meet contemporary needs.\u00a0 A special focus was on the conversion of St. Mark\u2019s and St. Peter\u2019s Evangelical Lutheran churches in Kitchener.\u00a0 The talk was held at St. Mark’s Place<\/a> which contain 43 units of deeply affordable housing for previously homeless or precariously housed individuals. A daily meal as well health and social services are also provided ath St. Mark’s Place.\u00a0 The rental costs are very low and residents pay almost nothing for utilities because the building is so energy efficient.<\/p>\n

The third talk in the series by Joe Mancini of The Working Centre will focus on the adaptive reuse of the 1927 Mitchell Button Factory building at 97 Victoria Street North, Kitchener.\u00a0 The building will offer 44 units of affordable housing along with medical, counselling and other services. \u00a0\u00a0The St. John\u2019s Kitchen will be resumed from a temporary location to a new building next to the affordable housing in the renovated heritage building.<\/p>\n

The public is invited to the third talk which takes place in the Community Room at St. The St. Matthew’s Church at\u00a0 54 Benton St. Kitchener. \u00a0Access the Community Room is from the parking area off Benton and the Queen LRT stop.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s ACO campaign addresses the housing crisis and how buildings we value \u2013 through thoughtful adaptive\u00a0reuse\u00a0and careful renovation \u2013 can provide needed housing units. The campaign also focuses on using Canadian resources \u2013 labour and materials \u2013 to provide for a more sustainable future. A Canada First approach!<\/p>\n

ACO is asking the Government of Ontario to provide heritage grants so that heritage will be preserved and at the same provide for the needs of at risk members of our community for housing.<\/p>\n

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A series of talks sponsored by ACO’s North Waterloo Region Branch is living proof of the merits of Architectural Conservancy Ontario (ACO)’s campaign for provincial funding to turn heritage into housing. Each talk focuses on a Waterloo Region heritage building adaptively repurposed as housing — deeply affordable housing in two of the three examples. Only … Continue reading From Heritage to Housing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aconwr.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}