Category: Going Downtown

The following letter to the editor appeared in the November 19 edition of the Guelph Mercury: I was surprised to read that Lorenz Calcagno, a board member of the Downtown Guelph Business Association, and Ian Findlay, a city councillor and downtown business owner, are searching for ways to increase automobile traffic through the downtown core as a way […]

You might want to share this article with the Mayor and Council just to show that we, (Nightlife Task Force), are leaders in some of the initiatives tried and that we have already implemented programs and partnerships that others are just getting around to now. I believe the Nightlife Committee has done some good work. […]

Saw this in the Record and thought you might be interested as I understand you are involved in a lot of things Downtown. JP November 17, 2009 By Terry Pender, Record staff KITCHENER — More people are living and working in the downtown area five years after the city launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar plan to […]

St Georges Sq Traffic Signal Memo to Mayor & Council

The following article appeared in the November 11 edition of the Guelph Mercury: A growing number of downtown merchants want to leave the light on for potential customers. Downtown Guelph Business Association board member Lorenz Calcagno spoke to about 60 people Tuesday at the Alma Gallery about a plan to alter traffic signals and patterns, all in an effort to […]

The following article appeared in the November 10 edition of the Guelph Mercury: In the summer of 1990, more than 12,000 vehicles a day drove along Wyndham Street through St. George’s Square. Seventeen years later, daily trips on the same stretch had dropped to about 5,400.

Traffic Counts for a 24 hour period on Wyndham St through St.George’s Square: July 1990                               12,500 September 1993                  12,100 July 1998 Signal Lights at Wyndham & Quebec Programming Change October 1998   […]

We are very disappointed to hear of the proposal to cut the library from the budget, and even to not consider it for several years. This will have a devastating affect on the downtown as we have been preparing for the new library by accumulating proposed properties which will now be left empty, or even […]

The following article appeared in the October 16 edition of the Guelph Mercury: Able-bodied men who find themselves downtown with a full bladder will now be in the same boat as everyone else. The city on Thursday morning removed the two pissoir units installed about seven weeks ago. City councillors agreed in the summer to […]