Mississauga Developments

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It doesn’t need to be re-developed to fix that. Just change the ownership to the city and the status of the main corridors to being streets (closed to vehicle traffic, presumably).

Knocking the whole thing down and rebuilding without roofs spanning the spaces between the buildings seems like an overreaction.

That sounds like a fairly major expropriation to me. Malls are also climate controlled, so you'd have the city take that over?

Somehow a mall doesn't feel like a street to me. The urban design is different (and in the mall these days kind of hostile to not shopping). It's more than just the matter of a roof.