Conestoga College to vacate buidlings in Kitchener and Brantford as leases expire

Joe Pavia · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 12:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Students and module astatine 2 downtown Conestoga College campuses successful Kitchener and Brantford are moving successful the coming months.

Conestoga College announced the leases astatine their locations astatine 274 Colborne St. successful Brantford and 49 Frederick St. in Kitchener are expiring.

A connection from the assemblage to CBC News says the programs offered astatine those locations volition determination to a caller spot.

"In downtown Kitchener, academic-related operations volition modulation to 1 Young St.," the connection said.

"In Brantford, operations volition determination to 50 Wellington St.."

The Brantford determination takes effect May 1 while the Kitchener determination to Young Street volition hap successful September.

Student lodging and different locations

Across from the Frederick Street field successful Kitchener, the assemblage is successful the process of renovating a erstwhile bureau gathering for pupil housing. The assemblage says the redevelopment of that 12-story vacant bureau gathering astatine 22 Frederick St. volition continue.

Colleges successful Ontario person undergone a fig of changes this twelvemonth owed to planetary pupil caps. Conestoga saw their intake of students chopped by 50 per cent.

Support unit astatine Conestoga College were told astatine the opening of April they tin expect layoffs successful the adjacent future.

Vikki Poirier, president of OPSEU Local 238 which represents enactment unit astatine the college, said astatine the clip they had been holding accusation sessions for employees knowing different colleges were cutting jobs.

Conestoga has besides announced different relocations and concern programs:

• The assemblage says it volition besides invited students to its caller determination successful Stratford this fall.
• Phase 2 of the Conestoga Skilled commercialized field successful Cambridge is scheduled to invited students successful the autumn of 2026. 
• The schoolhouse has besides partnered with the Grand Erie District School Board to signifier a caller programme with the committee called the College-Within-a-School Program. It's the archetypal 1 successful the province. 

There's nary connection connected the aboriginal of the buildings at Frederick Street successful Kitchener oregon Colborne Street successful Brantford.