UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
The new fitness area is in at the main stairs of the McHugh Bluffs…
I agree. There are proposals for several more I believe. That area was an empty pit about a foot deep for at least a year and a half. Very happy to see it, it will get lots of use.Oh that's amazing, I didn't know they were building a fitness park. There were no fitness park in the entire downtown and surrounding areas until then if I'm not mistaken. When I was living downtown, I had to go to the Uofc's Research Park to train.
I'm a huge fan of fitness park, they are pretty low cost to build and maintain. And they get people outside to gather and improve their health, from young kids to seniors![]()
Great! I just wanted to add that the city centres in Toronto have an interesting development history. Although conceived in the 1970s as centres of office employment to relieve pressure on the downtown, they didn't really attract a lot of office development. Starting in the 1980s they began to get cultural and government functions and some housing. About half were built around regional shopping centres. The real boom came when rapid transit was extended to them from downtown and the zoning was changed to allow for highrise residential development. That started in the mid 1990s and has been increasing ever since to the point were Mississauga City Centre now has 60,000 residents which makes it a larger centre of population than most NA traditional downtowns. This number is expected to double over the next decade.Hey Rdaner, welcome. Not a lot of development happening around our LRT stations right now unfortunately although a few projects are in the works. We do have some interesting developing suburban areas but nothing close to the scale you'd see in TO and Van. The closest thing to a suburban centre would be Quarry Park. University District is looking great and West District is coming along. The caveat to this is all of those are still within the city limits, so not the same situation as a Mississauga or Surrey.
So far development and planning around LRT stations has been abysmal, but I feel like we are finally ready to turn the corner. Sunnyside, though not a master planned TOD is evolving nicely, and Brentwood is getting there. If Brentwood Commons gets built, it'll be a substantial TOD/Transit adjacent area.I feel like proximity to the LRT has not helped big developments here.
West District, University District, Currie Barracks and Trinity Hills are all rapidly filling out despite not being near the train (although Currie and maybe UD have BRT). Marda Loop (BRT on the periphery) and Kensington/19th are gradually building up. But meanwhile the area around Westbrook LRT has reverted to prairie and Anderson is still a parking lot. And Crown Park is very low-rise given its proximity to Shaganappi Point. I am optimistic about Brentwood though.
That requirement for all park and rides is now gone as part of the recent RouteAhead update.
Expect a lot of TOD action at various locations.
Primary land owners who want to build and work on land economics to accomplish that versus those that see returns at TODs elsewhere and seek to replicate.I feel like proximity to the LRT has not helped big developments here.
West District, University District, Currie Barracks and Trinity Hills are all rapidly filling out despite not being near the train (although Currie and maybe UD have BRT). Marda Loop (BRT on the periphery) and Kensington/19th are gradually building up. But meanwhile the area around Westbrook LRT has reverted to prairie and Anderson is still a parking lot. And Crown Park is very low-rise given its proximity to Shaganappi Point. I am optimistic about Brentwood though.