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i $ datert *ivq "If they want to use us, it‘s great. We‘ve always done really well at lunch, so it‘s a bonus, I gtiess." Drexler expects his restauâ€" rant‘s location to be espeâ€" cially advantageous on cold or rainy days, when region employees may not want to go far for their lunch. Bill Boskovski, owner of Lounge at Erb and Regina Streets, said having the employees has been "a nice Those two years weren‘t so ‘bad, however, because conâ€" struction workers from the customers, he added. But now that 450 region employees are within a stone‘s throw, business is booming. On oné recent weekday, Drexler said "probâ€" ably 50 per cent" of his lunch customers came from the Health and Social Services "We‘ve been waiting two years for them," he said. "I‘m glad the building is finished." been a shot in the arm for nearby restaurants. _A case in point is Marbles, close enough to be covered by the earlyâ€"morning shadow of its new sixâ€"storey neighbor to the east. Marbles owner Bob Drexler said the place fills Chronicle Staff sr .ls'. l ilding has Region HQ means $$$ for uptown restaurants Lunch bunch boost ince opening in late March, Waterloo Region‘s Health and (Continued on page 2) praying . [A too good to be mith‘s© â€" K Yard wastes are After a year of negotiating with the city and gaining and losing investors, Black has not yet been able to break ground on the 21.5â€" hectare site on Wilmot Line just north of Erb Street. "We didn‘t get started last year. We had a lot of extra things to work out with the city that took us longer than we thought. We had some details to work out with city staff." Black said the finalization of his lease first ran into problems when the city asked him to cover part of the cost of paving Wilmot Line and "The city wanted us to build a road, (and) they wanted us to pay for the road before we got started. But when it came down to how much the road was going to cost us, no one could tell us.". Black said that missing figure concerned his investors, so he spent sevâ€" There will be no golfing on Wilmot Line this summer. Doug Black, who reached a lease agrsement with Waterloo for the development of a golf academy a year ago, had hoped to have the course Golf academy still in the rough City lease requirements hold up project annual Spring Food Drive continues through April 11. Sylvia Rauscher, a volunteer with the Food Bank of Waterioo Region, had her hands full yesterâ€" day when she picked up food donations at the fire station on Weber Street in Waterloo. The Black in five years in exchange for interior land "Our concern was if we build a golf course out there, all of a sudden everybody‘s going to want to be beside the golf course, so then they come out and buy that land right away." Black said he doesn‘t want to see the city "leapfrog" its development of the Erb/Wilmot area in this way. "In fairness to us and to the project, you‘ve got to have development in a natural progression â€" it has to go down Erb Street, then it has to go down Wilmot Line." Black said he has always had investors interested in his course. His problem is that enough of them have balked at the "expropriation clause" to keep the total investment in the project from ever being enough for eral months negotiating with the city over that clause in the lease until it became apparent that he wouldn‘t have to fund the road work at least until the course is up and running. "If traffic ... caused by our facility gets to reach a certain point, then we will make a contribution to the road." Black and his investors also became concerned with a clause that allows Waterloo to take part of the frontage area of the property from with tonight‘s Moore‘s Suite (Continued on page 3 (Continued on page 2)