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WATERLOO — The buildings that have transformed the old Seagram lands hold a special significance for Sunshine Chen.
The University of Waterloo architecture graduate researched redevelopment options for the site as his fourth-year thesis in 1997.
He proposed a hall for Waterloo’s two universities that would double as a convention hall with think tanks surrounding it.
“Then the city offered me a job to come work on the Seagram lands redevelopment,” Chen said …
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