Mississauga Developments

[plam]

The Mississauga thing is a development beside Square One, not a redevelopment of Square One, unfortunately.

What is wrong with Square One? Not including the parking lots, which are apparently slated to be replaced by mixed-use development.

I think it's this thing that we talk about sometimes. Square One and all malls make me uncomfortable as not-actually-public spaces that are solely devoted to consumerism and where the protections of the public sphere don't hold. I don't enjoy interacting with panhandlers and would like our society to have real solutions, but having them out of sight is not a solution.

By the way, it's not just Wellington that has awnings outside stores. Even tiny Elora-sized towns around Wellington have them. They're mostly not glass but rather opaque.