The Retail Apocalypse

[afransen]

The final Mississauga retail strategy has not yet been released, I believe. I take your point about the MCC area, but I'm actually hoping to see greater focus on retail along big streets. Streets like Hurontario or Dundas, I think have a number of apartment buildings that are zoned residential, rather than mixed use.

You see a lot of buildings like these:

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I'd like to see some incentives for retail strips in the yards of such apartment buildings.

They should more resemble this:

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Hurontario and Dundas are never going to be streets where you will want to sit on a patio and enjoy a coffee or meal. They are highways. I think better for buildings to turn their backs on the arterials (let them be roads) and have a separate network of streets that are actually pleasant places to be. A 6 lane arterial cannot be a pleasant place.