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Well this one is certainly ambitious
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Could one be sceptical of the idea of this as a "gateway" to Cambridge? Seems more likely to me to be filled with commuters to Mississagua and Toronto.
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09-23-2020, 10:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-23-2020, 10:13 AM by ac3r.)
It's basically a Vaughan Metropolitan Centre or Square One Shopping Centre, but in Cambridge. A suburban development with high rises...not exactly something I like to see, but I understand why they get developed. I'm really skeptical that this would become a "gateway to Cambridge" if it is placing more density, residents and businesses in a suburban area beside a highway rather the actual core of the city itself.
Edit: This thread should perhaps be moved to the Suburbs section, as it's far away from downtown like Grand Market District is.
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The location is suburban, but depending on how it is built and the range of uses on site it could be the most big-city thing in the Region. Potentially there could be effectively a town of several thousand people together with all their services on that one site, connected by high-quality public transit to the other towns and cities in the Region.
Of course we’ll probably just get a bunch of parking with towers in it hostile to pedestrians, so that it’s perfectly normal to drive from an apartment in one tower to a store in a commercial block a short distance over.
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09-26-2020, 10:21 AM
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I wonder if Smart Centre has similar ideas for The Laurentian Power Centre on Ottawa Street. It doesn't seem like anything is going to lease the old Target, and Home Outfitters has been closed for awhile now too.
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I don't think SmartCentres owns Laurentian, but a redevelopment there would be welcome.
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Ah, the mostly-empty back half. Huh.
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They must have recently purchased that, or recently put it up for sale. I remember seeing the property for sale a few months ago.