SmartCentre development at Hespeler & Pinebush

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My major concern with major projects like this is that the land owner is selling the up-zoning on the basis of a full redevelopment of the site, but realistically a redevelopment like that likely wouldn't happen except over a long period of time. It puts a lot of eggs in one basket and makes the whole project far more risky and if the city isn't very careful, what is actually delivered in the end may not be what was promised.

This is true, like how Barrel Yards has been ongoing for 10 years and is still only half built.  Whatever expectations anyone had at the beginning have certainly not been met, and with half the site still not built who knows what will actually fill the rest of it someday.