Square Feet: Building and Vanguard

square feet: Schreiter opened on King Street in 1892 and moved to it current location at 27 Gaukel St, according to The Waterloo Record. Members of the Schreiter family were not available for comment Tuesday, and it is not known where the historic business will move. "We are converting that to office with potentially some ground-floor commercial," Tom Rakic, president of Vanguard, said of the company plans for the building. Vanguard Development Corp. deal for the building at Gaukel and Charles streets in downtown Kitchener is slated to close later this month. The phone started ringing at Vanguard as word spread that it was buying the three-floor building containing 21,000 square feet of space. "We have had some soft inquiries from companies," Rakic said. "That location is phenomenal. He came to Kitchener, known as Berlin at the time, and opened a furniture business at 52 King St. It is truly brick-and-beam with tons of glazing, one block from City Hall, two blocks from the Tannery." Alvin G. Schreiter started in the furniture business in Boutzin, Germany in 1873. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.