M CITY - Condos
the master planning of a 16 acre site at the western edge of Downtown Mississauga. The resulting community – “M City Mississauga” – could end up being a modern take on the original Garden City Movement from over a century ago.
Plans call for 6,000 units to be available for rent or for sale at prices ranging from around $200,000 up to $750,000. Some 700 units are envisioned for the first phase, with construction to begin in late 2017 or early 2018 and to continue in stages as units are pre-sold or rented and as the Rogers family retains ownership of the land.
According to architectural renderings, M City features will include extending existing city streets on a unique, angular plane to create a fine-grained network of blocks, enabling a pedestrian-friendly environment. Typical residential blocks will provide two-way roads with on-street parking, generous sidewalks and residential frontages.
Rogers will partner with a construction management company and a highrise builder on the project, which Iannicca said will be a defining feature of Canada’s sixth-largest city. The towers will house privately owned condos and rentals, with a wide variety of leased commercial properties on the lower floors.
Courtesy of Toronto Star
According to architectural renderings, M City features will include extending existing city streets on a unique, angular plane to create a fine-grained network of blocks, enabling a pedestrian-friendly environment. Typical residential blocks will provide two-way roads with on-street parking, generous sidewalks and residential frontages.
Rogers will partner with a construction management company and a highrise builder on the project, which Iannicca said will be a defining feature of Canada’s sixth-largest city. The towers will house privately owned condos and rentals, with a wide variety of leased commercial properties on the lower floors.
Courtesy of Toronto Star
Previous plans for the site included the "Garden City Concept"
What is the “Garden City” of the twenty first century?
Back in 1898, Sir Ebenezer Howard created a movement in England to bring the working class out of the unhealthy, overcrowded Victorian cities of the time into new, tidy, self-contained communities where people would breathe fresh air and have access to parkland. Each community would have its own homes, businesses, industries and parks, all connected to a major city, but separated from it by “greenbelts”. Ebenezer’s plan was called the “Garden City Movement”, and while it was a wonderful idea, it didn’t really turn out as planned. Instead, over the past century we built today’s typical suburban municipalities, single-purpose sprawling “bedroom” communities serving the adjacent urban centre. Mississauga, the city that sits at Toronto’s west end, has been trying to buck this trend. Over the past twenty years Canada’s sixth largest community has opted for “product differentiation” and has been shaping itself into a full-fledged stand-alone city.
Since 1987, when municipal officials moved their city hall to Hurontario and Burnhamthorpe, Mississauga has been steadily working on an identifiable downtown core with a distinctive skyline. Specifically, the city is in the midst of converting a 2.3 by 1.5 km-wide area into Downtown Mississauga, a dense livework-play neighbourhood with a sense of location and a palpable character.
According to Ed Sajecki, Mississauga’s Commissioner of Planning and Building, the City presently has more than 700,000 inhabitants and 440,000 jobs but only 35,000 residents and 20,000 jobs are located downtown. Yet, the city’s nascent core has the capacity to build out to 70,000 people with the same number of employment opportunities, targets officials are gunning to reach with the City’s new Downtown 21 plan.
Ed Sajecki has already undertaken the detailed design work for a major north-south light rail rapid transit line. The 23-km corridor with about 30 stations will connect Mississauga’s waterfront to Downtown and points north, calling at four GO Transit interregional hubs along the way. Given Garden City’s location at the western border of Downtown Mississauga, the master plan calls for signature residential buildings, like a 60-story point tower on the corner, defining a western gateway to Downtown and bookending its skyline with iconic architecture.
” Will Garden City look like something Ebenezer Howard could imagine? Mississauga will never be the community Howard dreamed of, an idyllic 45,000 person town separated from its neighbours by rolling countryside. But by developing a dense, transit-oriented urban community, where people have close access to parks, shops, restaurants and their office, we can all do a little honour to what he was trying to achieve.
Since 1987, when municipal officials moved their city hall to Hurontario and Burnhamthorpe, Mississauga has been steadily working on an identifiable downtown core with a distinctive skyline. Specifically, the city is in the midst of converting a 2.3 by 1.5 km-wide area into Downtown Mississauga, a dense livework-play neighbourhood with a sense of location and a palpable character.
According to Ed Sajecki, Mississauga’s Commissioner of Planning and Building, the City presently has more than 700,000 inhabitants and 440,000 jobs but only 35,000 residents and 20,000 jobs are located downtown. Yet, the city’s nascent core has the capacity to build out to 70,000 people with the same number of employment opportunities, targets officials are gunning to reach with the City’s new Downtown 21 plan.
Ed Sajecki has already undertaken the detailed design work for a major north-south light rail rapid transit line. The 23-km corridor with about 30 stations will connect Mississauga’s waterfront to Downtown and points north, calling at four GO Transit interregional hubs along the way. Given Garden City’s location at the western border of Downtown Mississauga, the master plan calls for signature residential buildings, like a 60-story point tower on the corner, defining a western gateway to Downtown and bookending its skyline with iconic architecture.
” Will Garden City look like something Ebenezer Howard could imagine? Mississauga will never be the community Howard dreamed of, an idyllic 45,000 person town separated from its neighbours by rolling countryside. But by developing a dense, transit-oriented urban community, where people have close access to parks, shops, restaurants and their office, we can all do a little honour to what he was trying to achieve.
