The people building “The Absolute,” the soon-to-be-landmark at Mississauga City Centre (the area surrounding Square One Mall), are asking the public to vote on the design they like best. This could be just a way to get your email address and send you glossy brochures, but maybe they actually want to know what the public has to say. I’ll leave it to you to decide. Spacing Magazine officially does not encourage people to lie about where they live when filling out forms like this.
Mississauga City Centre seems to change everyday. Last Friday night a friend took me on a drive through Mississauga and his childhood neighbourhood of Cooksville. We saw his parent’s house, we ate at Taco Bell and then went to a Tim Hortons down on Lakeshore. Driving along Dundas, heading towards Mavis, the city centre was lit up like kilometer-wide electric foothills to the north. Parts of Mississauga are starting to look like Hong Kong or Shanghai — perhaps a good thing. All that density, but no subway. I would totally hang out at Square One a lot more if there was a subway I could take there. It was fun to take the Sheppard subway to Fairview mall for a while, but I hear the mmmmmmmmmMuffins at Square One is the best.