DevelopmentBrampton, Caledon +3
Highway 413: build it or not?
The argument nobody in Peel, York or Halton has been able to stop having.
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Seventeen more towers at the VMC. Is it a downtown yet?
Vaughan approved the Toromont master plan in June: 17 towers including a 73-storey one, 9,950 homes on 27 acres beside the subway. The Metropolitan Centre already has nineteen buildings over 100 metres. It had none in 2016.
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In 2016 the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre was a bus terminal, a Walmart and a field at Highway 7 and Jane. The subway arrived in 2017. Nineteen buildings over 100 metres have gone up since.
In June council approved the biggest piece yet: the Toromont master plan, seventeen towers on the equipment dealer’s 27-acre site, among them a 73-storey landmark, 9,950 homes across four blocks. The city’s targets for the district, 12,000 homes, 1.5 million square feet of office and 750,000 of retail by 2031, are on track to be met or beaten.
What the towers have not yet settled is whether the place is a downtown or a very tall place to sleep. The test is the same one every built-from-scratch centre in this region faces: is anybody there on a weekday afternoon who did not have to be.
Sources: blogTO, seventeen towers approved · Daily Commercial News, the Toromont master plan · Wikipedia, the tallest buildings in Vaughan · The Globe and Mail, a towering new downtown
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Development charges just got cut in half. Will it build anything?
The fee that pays for growth was blamed for stopping it. Now it is mostly gone, and the test is on.
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