Mississauga Square One District | ?m | 65s | Oxford Properties | Hariri Pontarini

[sixrings]

Amusingly, I took a look at Mississauga MTSA assessment from a couple years ago, and the only MTSA where they decided it just was not possible to achieve the density targets and nothing should change is Mineola, just north of Port Credit GO, which is the confluence of the soon to be completed HuLRT, soon to be electrified frequent Lakeshore W GO and easy access to QEW. That is a much more logical place to try to jam a dense office node. Ask the City of Mississauga? Not a single low rise SFH to be touched. Impossible! Of course, this has nothing to do with the wealth and influence of the residents in the area.



I don't think that cuts it as strong transit connectivity. North York Centre is on Line 1 and Line 4 near the 401 and not very popular as an office node.

Isn’t the problem with office space in Toronto that it’s taxed the same no matter where it is? Which means companies preference downtown. Would Mississauga face those same challenges?

 

[interchange42]

Enough on this (off)topic for a while please, the arguments have be exhausted/ing. Let's pick this thread up again when the next moves come on the Oxford proposal for mixed-use on the western blocks of the Rathburn District.

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[LemonCondo]

Line 2 and 5 both need to be sent to MCC. We need to treat Mississauga as the 2nd biggest city in the GTA, not some backwater.

 

[Lake Ontario]

A birds-eye render showing the entirety of the master plan; from Hariri Pontarini's Instagram.

Highlighted map for reference:

 

[drum118]

Going to Planning Committee On Sept 16

6.4 PUBLIC MEETING INFORMATION/RECOMMENDATION REPORT (WARD 4)
Official Plan Amendment to permit expanded residential permissions, establish minimum non-residential and office requirements, permit science and technology facility uses, and designate a public open space block 99, 189, 199, 209, 219, 299 and 309 Rathburn Road West, 97 and 100 City Centre Drive, North Side of Rathburn Road West, east of Confederation Parkway, southeast corner of Rathburn Road West and Duke of York Boulevard, and southwest corner of City Centre Drive and Kariya Gate
Owner: OPG SQ1 Holdings Inc., ARI SQ1 Holdings Inc., OMERS Realty Management Corporation, and Square One Property Corporation File: OPA 22-29 W4

 

[superior_chromatic]

Going to Planning Committee On Sept 16

6.4 PUBLIC MEETING INFORMATION/RECOMMENDATION REPORT (WARD 4)
Official Plan Amendment to permit expanded residential permissions, establish minimum non-residential and office requirements, permit science and technology facility uses, and designate a public open space block 99, 189, 199, 209, 219, 299 and 309 Rathburn Road West, 97 and 100 City Centre Drive, North Side of Rathburn Road West, east of Confederation Parkway, southeast corner of Rathburn Road West and Duke of York Boulevard, and southwest corner of City Centre Drive and Kariya Gate
Owner: OPG SQ1 Holdings Inc., ARI SQ1 Holdings Inc., OMERS Realty Management Corporation, and Square One Property Corporation File: OPA 22-29 W4

Dug up the report and the annex. The gist seems to be re-designating three lots in the northwest of the Rathburn "Square One District" from office to mixed use and a park...

...with the loss of office space to be offset by specifying office use of minimum GFA of 1,858 sq. m. at site C, northwest corner of Kariya and Burnhamthorpe:

 

[drum118]

Dug up the report and the annex. The gist seems to be re-designating three lots in the northwest of the Rathburn "Square One District" from office to mixed use and a park...

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...with the loss of office space to be offset by specifying office use of minimum GFA of 1,858 sq. m. at site C, northwest corner of Kariya and Burnhamthorpe:

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OMERS wanted low 11s office towers along City View with the city giving them a tax break doing so.

One thing missing from this report, where is the new transit hub going to be as well supporting 150,000 riders a day??? then there is taking the Transitway underground from the east side of Hurontario and then getting it to the north side to build the missing link for it.

I don't like OMERS vision for their land as it will be mainly towers in the park that is the standard for Mississauga nor meet the vision of Downtown 21 which was weak as well.

The Kariya and Burnhamthorpe site can be on the lines of the Exchange District using that full block that will have a street between it and the Exchange, but opposed any on street parking for it.