Mega-Projects Reshaping Mississauga Sprawl
Among the major projects in the works in Mississauga is a a 10-tower development spearheaded by a real estate company created by the Rogers family.
TORONTO STAR
San Grewal
It’s a startling departure for Mississauga after decades of urban sprawl, which featured wide single-family housing in vast subdivisions and low-slung commercial buildings in strip-mall-style plazas surrounded by acres space for parking.
“It’s a combination of different factors,” says Ed Sajecki, the man in charge of planning and building in Mississauga, explaining the historic changes taking place. He says Mississauga’s current success is partly because it is embracing an urbanism that is somewhere in the middle, on more of a human scale — not the car dominated sprawl that has defined postwar North American suburbs, and not the hyper-verticality of many walled off concrete and glass cities rising upward around the world.
“The public has been very clear, council has been very clear, we’re looking at more of a midrise form of intensification down in those areas. The plans do provide for a tiny bit of deviation, but it’s been very clear (in our waterfront) documents, if we do entertain some higher buildings it would have to be something that we would all be very, very proud of.”