Mississauga's waterfront: 16,000 homes where the power plant stood

The Lakeview generating station’s four stacks came down in 2006 and the site sat as a fenced-off flat of gravel for most of two decades. It is now the biggest construction site on Mississauga’s shoreline.

The first residential buildings have gone vertical. Roads and the platform for a Lakeview GO station are largely in, with paving that began in May; Metrolinx says station construction starts this autumn for service by 2030. Next door, the 64-acre Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area, built out into the lake from construction rubble, opens this year, and the first stretch of waterfront trail is already walkable. First occupancy is early 2029.

The number that changed everything is the unit count. The city’s plan was 8,050 homes. In late 2023 a Minister’s Zoning Order took it to 16,000. That doubled the population of the future neighbourhood and the height of most of it, and it is the reason the argument is not over.

Sources: Ontario Construction News, vertical construction starts · insauga, the first highrise · City of Mississauga, Lakeview Village · Lakeview Village, the project