Update Sept 24/08: Turns out Urbacon got canned from the city hall project for taking way too long to complete. It was supposed to be done in February. It’s now September, so they missed their date by a little bit. You can read all the details on the Guelph Mercury site.

I wanted to start a regular feature on this site covering stuff I see in downtown Guelph on a regular basis. There are lots of weird and amusing things down there to use as source material. The first installment is a dumpster that was recently installed near the city hall redevelopment. I don’t think the guys who came up with the name for this company really thought it through before naming it URBACON. I’m sure the company really didn’t intend to tell the world that they are in fact a fatty, greasy, salty pork product. Or maybe they did, as part of some broad arcing socio-political statement under the guise of a corporation name.