{"id":651,"date":"2006-03-28T01:55:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:44:52","slug":"developing-vaughan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/03\/28\/developing-vaughan\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Vaughan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s development story is not about the waterfront. Its about “downtown” Vaughan<\/strong><\/a>. It seems developers like the idea of the Spadina subway line coming north of Steeles, to help build a dense “downtown” area around Jane and Highway 7 (currently it is a nondescript light industrial area).<\/p>\n

The dream of Vaughan building its own downtown from scratch has taken on a new sense of importance with the province’s decision to extend the TTC subway system into the so-called city above Toronto. For about eight years, planners and politicians in Vaughan have been putting together a proposal for a 600-acre development called the Vaughan Corporate Centre from roughly Highway 407 north to Highway 7, with the centrepiece being a 125-acre downtown.<\/p>\n

“Without the subway I don’t think the dream can be realized … the subway will make it happen,” said Vaughan Mayor Michael Di Biase, noting that developers are already eagerly lining up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sounds great and I hope it happens. But I am worried that it will end up looking like “downtown” North York (see below). That area is dense, with over 20 condo towers (avg. 25 floors) between Sheppard and Finch, but also extremely sterile and handles six lanes of slow-moving traffic. If a development project ever needed a design review panel<\/a> (like the City of Toronto is testing in four developing neighbourhoods), Downtown Vaughan should be near the top of the list.<\/p>\n

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