Went to Stratford to see a play.
I have been to the river, to Williams', Festival Theatre always at night, but never really downtown.

All I can say is WOW it is really urban, not too touristy in a good way, and there are endless streetwalls...! What a huge downtown! I felt like I was in a larger American city, like 500,000 people... lol...

Amazing town/city Stratford is... I am now in love with it and will be doing a photo tour sometime soon in the summer or spring!

Glad to hear you enjoyed your time in Stratty there, SP!RE! The downtown Stratford has feels like it has a lot more than 30,000 people, maybe even twice as much population. I will be doing another spring/summer time posting myself of Stratford soon. I don't know if an American city of 500,000 people would cut it for Stratford. Maybe a city of 70,000+ though, that could be accurate enough!

Well with the way suburbia has worked its black magic on american cities, Downtown Stratford would be sufficient for a city the size of Kitchener and Waterloo in some cases.

But, yes, a great downtown, a great town. Can't believe how little publicity it gets, and how little we hear about its downtown as a model for Downtown Kitchener and such...

whats happening with that residential development in downtown stratford that i heard about not long ago, is it still planned for construction?

^ I believe you are talking about on Erie St. where the Stratford Hotel is and the land that is currently a parking lot. As far as I know, yes the development is still going to happen, as I believe a decision was made determining what would be built there, including a luxury five to six storey condo project.

very good news for stratford, if theyre giong to grow, its good that theyre going to do so in style. stratford is a very nice city, and i hope that they can keep it that way.
is there going to be street level retail in the development?

Stratford owns. My uncle used to live there, on the east end, which is sort of the older area, slighly run down. I don't know what street, but he lived behind that big abandoned factory with the skate park beside it.

For a town the size of Stratford, there downtown sure as hell kicks ass, it's huge. It's alot bigger then Kitchener's.

One thing I gotta ask, did you get Kens French Fries? They're this really old fry shop that run out of old buses and they've been there for yearssss. They have a truck downtown and by the mall.

Indeed, Stratford feels more like a city than KW does.