Mississauga City Centre

Mississauga City Centre is a central business district in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The downtown district is located generally at the intersection of Hurontario Street and Burnhamthorpe Road, centred around Square One Shopping Centre.
Highrise corridor developing along Confederation Parkway
Mississauga is a suburban city, restructured from the predominantly rural Toronto Township, Ontario, and as a result the core is a modern and fully planned community planned Greenfield land, rather than a traditional city downtown which grew organically over of a long period of time. As such, it's boundaries are sharp and there is no transitional inner city between it and the surrounding suburban areas, some of which are older than the city centre itself. In addition, despite Mississauga being located on Lake Ontario, the city centre is not located on or near the waterfront (as is typically the case for cities situated by water), but is located inland. 
Originally there was an Octagon ring road encircling Square One Shopping Centre, but later changes to the street pattern as development progressed resulted in parts of it being incorporated into the present City Centre Drive and Duke of York Boulevard or being replaced by Square One Drive. 
The early developments in the city centre were mostly office buildings set in the middle of parking lots or condominiums constructed in tower in the park settings, as was the typical before the new urbanism principle was applied in the city centre planning area. Two of these office developments (including Mississauga's second Civic Centre) have since been demolished and have been or are being replaced with new projects.
Mississauga City Hall, completed in 1987 
The intersection of Hurontario St. and Burnhamthorpe Rd. was once the site of a rural hamlet named Payne's Corners. Prior to 1973, the area was predominantly agricultural. In the 1950s, developer Bruce McLaughlin began buying up farms in the area as he envisioned the-then mostly rural Toronto Township, as Mississauga was then known, becoming a future major city (at the time, suburban growth was already spilling over from Metropolitan Toronto) with a new urban core. To get his envisioned core started, he proposed to build Square One in 1969. The new core was given an additional boost that year after a fire badly damaged the newly-incorporated Town of Mississauga's municipal offices in the nearby community of Cooksville, Mississauga, prompting the municipality to move it's offices (a move already being contemplated) to a new building constructed on a plot of land in the area exchanged with McLaughlin for the old Cooksville property. In 1973, Square One opened, and provided the catalyst for the development of the new city centre. Mississauga's first mayor, Martin Dobkin as well as then-future mayor Hazel McCallion, wanted the city centre developed in Cooksville, the municipality's most central historic community, by urban intensification, but the popularity of the mall (as well as the location of the civic centre), enticed developers such as Ignat Kaneff and Harold Shipp, to construct condominium and office projects around it, such as the Mississauga Executive Centre in 1976. In 1986, Shipp worked with the Mathews Corporation to open a Novotel hotel, which is today still the only hotel in the City Centre.
When Bruce McLaughlin's corporation ran into financial difficulties in the late 1970s, Mayor Hazel McCallion proposed that an iconic Mississauga Civic Centre with a large civic square be built. Groundbreaking took place in 1984 for the new facility, and it was opened in July 1987, with Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York were present at the opening ceremonies. 
In 1997, the Living Arts Centre (Mississauga).
Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus
Mississauga City Centre today has a number of highrise buildings, and largely due the Greater Toronto Area condo boom, has several more under construction and planned. Most of this newer growth has occurred west of City Hall, centred along Confederation Parkway, in an area that was the last sector to develop, but which has now become the most densely-populated area in the core. 
One of the earliest built and most prominent buildings in the City Centre include the aforementioned city hall. Currently, the tallest is the residential Absolute World complex, located at the northwest corner of Burnhamthorpe Rd. and Hurontario St. It consists of six towers, with it's iconic main twin towers, nicknamed "the Marylin Monroe" because of their curvy shape, standing 50 and 56 stories. Other residential towers include PSV at Parkside Village,https://www.emporis.com/buildings/1195294/psv-at-parkside-village-mississauga-canada One Park Tower (Mississauga),https://www.emporis.com/buildings/230333/one-park-tower-mississauga-canada and Chicago.https://www.emporis.com/buildings/302845/chicago-mississauga-canada
===Under construction===
Projects currently under construction include the multi-tower M City Condominiums (the main tower which will become Mississauga's tallest building at 62 stories, Avia,https://www.emporis.com/buildings/1350824/avia-mississauga-canada and Exchange District Condos.
Mississauga's largest puplic Library, the Central Library, is located on the corner of Burnhamthorpe Rd. and Living Arts Drive. A satellite campus of Sheridan College, the Hazel McCallion Campus, is also located in the City Centre at the corner of Duke of York Blvd. and Rathburn Road. It's first phase opened in 2011.
===Public Transit===
Aerial view of City Centre Transit Terminal
Mississauga City Centre is well-served by Miway and GO Transit. The Mississauga City Centre Transit Terminal Transit Terminal is the city's main transit terminal and hosts 21 Miway bus routes and one Brampton Transit-operated bus rapid transit (named Züm) route. GO Transit buses serve the nearby Square One Bus Terminal. The under-construction Hurontario LRT will serve the terminal via a spur along Rathburn Road.
===Roads===
The two most important streets in the city centre are Hurontario Street and Burnhamthorpe Road. There are also other secondary arterials such as Rathburn Road, Confederation Parkway, and City Centre Drive. Ontario Highway 403 forms the northern boundary of the City Centre, and provides access to it from interchanges at Hurontario St. and Mavis Road, with the latter accessed via Centre View Drive, which runs alongside the freeway and branches off eastbound from the interchange. 
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Category:Central business districts in Canada 
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