11-16-2017, 04:04 PM
Officially "downtown" is Galt. (Calling the area "south Cambridge" was about as successful as calling Scotland "North Britain"). In practice, the city centre is along Hespeler Road. The best part of that status is that nothing along Hespeler Road has even the remotest architectural merit. Even allowing for clearing out of dead wood in Galt, the redevelopment potential is limited just by geography. That said, once an ION/GO station near Dundas and the railway tracks is opened, I can see pressure growing on CP to move their yard to Ayr as proposed a few years ago. That'll open up a lot of acreage for development.
Cambridge has the same issue as Mississauga: there's more than one downtown. Mississauga has Streetsville, Cooksville, Clarkson, and Port Credit; Cambridge has its three cores. Galt and Preston will benefit most from LRT; Hespeler will only benefit if there's a "Phase III" that connects Cambridge to Guelph along the GEXR railway tracks; I don't see that happening any time soon.
Cambridge has the same issue as Mississauga: there's more than one downtown. Mississauga has Streetsville, Cooksville, Clarkson, and Port Credit; Cambridge has its three cores. Galt and Preston will benefit most from LRT; Hespeler will only benefit if there's a "Phase III" that connects Cambridge to Guelph along the GEXR railway tracks; I don't see that happening any time soon.