khris
Senior Member
I believe when he said that, he meant harder to hide the overall garage. One storey of parking garage poking over the top of retail is less intrusive than 7 storeys over top.
I believe when he said that, he meant harder to hide the overall garage. One storey of parking garage poking over the top of retail is less intrusive than 7 storeys over top.
Parking doesn't need to look like parking. See the Trump thread.
Once the additional phases of the school are added, the 350~ parking spots won't even be enough for the school. A lot of students ill come by transit, but there are always a number who might be driving in from a short distance out of town, not to mention the building staff, teachers and professors.I assume that the proposed 10-storey lot would be a centralized facility accommodating a big chunk of Mississauga Centre's parking needs and permit some of the surface lots next to Square One to be redeveloped...but this may end up being excessive if every other project is built with parking and if/when transit is beefed up.
Above-ground parking structures aren't automatically urban poison. It's not like Mississauga Centre currently has an atmosphere like the Annex that would be ruined by a huge parking structure.