[salsa]

This part of Hurontario won't be anything like Sheppard or Finch or Don Mills for a long time, if ever.

I feel like the whole city is a planning disaster. Maybe the downtown will eventually become a vibrant area, but almost everywhere else will remain a suburban wasteland.

 

[Dan416]

I feel like the whole city is a planning disaster. Maybe the downtown will eventually become a vibrant area, but almost everywhere else will remain a suburban wasteland.

OK I guess you're not very familiar with Mississauga then.

 

[ShonTron]

I feel like the whole city is a planning disaster. Maybe the downtown will eventually become a vibrant area, but almost everywhere else will remain a suburban wasteland.

To be fair, Hurontario from Bristol south to the QEW is a pretty densely populated area - including the MCC mega cluster, but also high rise clusters near Bristol, Eglinton, Central Parkway and Paisley. Port Credit and Streetsville are definitely not suburban wastelands. (Neither is the part of Brampton where the LRT is planned for.)

My major problem with the Samsung/Wells Fargo building (besides the fact that it is really ugly, the lowest of lo-po precast commercial architecture) is how far back it is from Hurontario and the ugly aboveground parking lots, which makes it a long, ugly, soul-crushing slog from Hurontario, with its frequent Mississauga and Brampton buses. At least this new building will be closer to Hurontario/Britannia, if it meets Britannia, it will be a big step up.

 

[DavidJamesTO]

I feel like the whole city is a planning disaster. Maybe the downtown will eventually become a vibrant area, but almost everywhere else will remain a suburban wasteland.

And Streetsville, Clarkson, Port Credit, and Lakeview--at least.

 

[Jasonzed]