If you've been downtown this last month, you'll notice the city has been tearing up King St. once again in an effort to beautify the street and curbs, and make it more flexible for special summer events, and also to add some foliage for aesthetic reasons. They've finished our block down to Frederick St. last year, and this year they'll be working one block at a time all the way from City Hall to Francis St. in the north end of downtown Kitchener.
Completion should be once again in August/September. They will also lay another layer of pavement on our section sometime this summer. That should only close the street for a day or two. Meanwhile, as in last year, we are open all the time despite all this construction.
Traffic can still go through our block from Queen St. direction, and detour at City Hall to Duke St. But you will not be able to travel down King St. from Waterloo direction to reach our store.
There's always ample parking spots as usual on Centreblock (meter parking: $1 for 20 minutes) by approaching it from either Duke St. (use Google maps and type in 146 King St. W. Kitchener, Ontario to get the look of where we are situated downtown.)

So help us out in this down time as we build a better downtown, and come down and shop on our block. You'll be stimulating the economy, no less! (Is that a tacky sales pitch, or what?!)

Anyhow, there's some great stores on our block including Budd's Clothing (in business for more than 50 years!), Petsche's Shoes, City Pawnbrokers (with a great selection of new inexpensive guitars and wholesale jewelry), the Multicultural Centre, and Voila Hair Institute (hairstyling college with inexpensive haircuts).

There are numerous places to eat on our block, too, such as: Matter of Taste Cafe (best coffee in town), Bobby O'Brien's (roadhouse with a great patio), Pho DNK Vietnamese food (which is excellent), Ye's Sushi (I'm not a Sushi fan, but my staff love it), New York Pita Co.(great pita's), Philly's Cheesesteak restaurant and Pizza Pizza.

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