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Lots going on at MCC...first, Solstice now being clad in a pastel blue, different from Citygate's green....

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crane went up yesterday and today at Ultra Ovation, the 4th and final Tridel tower at this site...

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hole at Ultra Ovation...

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some ongoing infrastructure....construction of the Confederation Parkway bridge over the 403...this will provide a link from the MCC condos, all the way up to Brampton...

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One Park Tower, looking like its render...

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there are angled brackets on the corners, just before the setback, where the gargoyles will be attached..:D

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Universal Condo, now topped out..

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Excavation at the site of Chicago...amazing that this one only went into sales in September, and already started..

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Street planters and bicycle path along Confederation Pkwy..

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Confederation Pkwy looking north..

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eve, three floors above grade...

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Absolute Vision (Absolute #3)..

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Wow - great update!

I didn't realize that Eve was that high already - I can't see it from my office quite yet as the trees in that area are massive.

The colours on Solstice are a nice change = the windows as you mentioned, and the cladding is sand versus the grey of the first two towers.
 
Downtown Mississauga keeps growing!

Everyone: Interesting pics of Downtown Mississauga-I find it
interesting in that this downtown is not served whatsoever by rail transit. I realize now that the Cooksville GO station is the closest rail station and being outside the City of Toronto probably will not be served by any sort of TTC extension.
One question I have is did this Downtown area exist in the 80s? If not-what was considered Mississauga's Downtown then? LI MIKE
 
Mississauga is a bit of a strange one when it comes to city development...it basically didn't exist until about 1974, when several small towns were incorporated into a new entity called the City of Mississauga...some of the small towns were Port Credit, Streetsville, Cooksville, Clarkson, Erindale, Meadowvale Village, and Malton, and each had a typical small town Ontario downtown..Port Credit and Streetsville were the largest, I believe. So today Mississauga has remnants of these former small town downtowns, scattered throughout its boundaries.

The area that is now MCC was basically farmland in the 1970s...the Square One Shopping Centre opened around 1974 as well, but it was then completely surrounded by cow pastures. You had to drive on country roads to get there, as the 403 didn't exist.The highrises that now comprise MCC were only built starting in the late 1980s, with all the taller ones only coming onstream in the last 5 years...
 
But Cooksville had choosen the area to be its "new downtown" before Mississauga ever came to be, but really they never did anything with it besides eventually building their new town hall there (which served as Mississauga's first if I recall correctly) but it's long gone now.
 
it was the Town of Mississauga that had already chosen Cooksville as the downtown. Later on, after the Town of Mississauga merged with Streetsville and Port Credit, then the Square One area became the City Centre.

The City Centre wasn't exactly farmland back thne. Some of the office buildings in MCC were built in the 50's and 60's.

Long Island Mike, it might seem strange to have high density nodes like Cooksville and MCC without rail transit but that is quite common the suburban GTA. Bramelea City Centre and Uptown Oakville are just a few more examples.

And yes, before anyones says it, I am well aware Cooksville has the GO station, but it doesn't count since it is only a few trips on the weekdays.

Still, despite the lack of rail transit, many of these places still major transit hubs.
 
Mississauga City Centre

Just to clear up a few point on the history of Mississauga City Centre:

1) Cooksville was the official downtown of town of Mississauga. The old Town Hall and Central Library are still standing yet abandoned today, just one block wast of Hurontario and Dundas (At Confederation Parkway). It would be an ideal site for a new library, community centre and or college campus.

2) Square One Shopping Centre opened in 1973, one year before Mississauga officially became a city in 1974.

3) All of Mississauga City Centre was a farmfield before Square One Shopping Centre was built. There was absolutely no office buildings or anything built until the 1970's.

4) The new city of Mississauga officially selected the area around Square One Shopping Centre as the new City Centre. Given the planning trends at the time, this made sense. A temporary City Hall was established in a converted office building across from Square One until the new Civic Centre was built and opened in 1987. The old City Hall was torn down and is the site of the 1 City Centre office tower.

5) There was always long term plans to extend mass rail to the new City Centre. Early maps and renderings had a line linking downtown Toronto with the new City Centre. Because of history and mainly funding those plans were never realized.

Louroz
 
FutureMayor said:
3) All of Mississauga City Centre was a farmfield before Square One Shopping Centre was built. There was absolutely no office buildings or anything built until the 1970's.
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Wrong. I know for sure that 77 City Centre Dr was built in 1969. All the office buildings along City Centre Drive were built before Square One.
 
doady,

In your inital post, you said office buildings were built in the 50's and 60's which is inaccurate.

I know for a fact that the majority of office buildings were built AFTER Square One Shopping Centre opened in 1973. The ONE office building that opened in 1969 probably housed the offices of McLaughlin Group which proposed and planned the new City Centre centred around Square One.

Louroz
 
Second Cup Finally Opened

I visited the Second Cup under the North tower of the Captial Building last night. Really nice and already busy with customers. This will be a popular spot, especially in the summer and when the new urban park opens across the street.

Louroz
 
Anth said:
Hopefully it's not just my imagination, but it seems there's been a significant jump in MCC pedestrian activity this year, especially around the civic centre.
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Yeah, mostly on Duke of York from what I've seen.

FutureMayor said:
doady,

In your inital post, you said office buildings were built in the 50's and 60's which is inaccurate.

I know for a fact that the majority of office buildings were built AFTER Square One Shopping Centre opened in 1973. The ONE office building that opened in 1969 probably housed the offices of McLaughlin Group which proposed and planned the new City Centre centred around Square One.

Louroz
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Ha, so you admit you were wrong. You are wrong about one building, how can you be sure you are not wrong about the others? That one office building built in 1969 that is supposedly the oldest doesn't even look that old compared to the others.
 
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