[CPEO-BIF] Inspiration Port Credit, Mississauga, Mississippi

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From Brownfields to Bustling Waterfront: How Developers are Preparing Inspiration Port Credit

by Bradley Northcote
inSauga (MS) 
May 7, 2017

With the deal closed and the draft plan in order, the next step for development consortium West Village Partners (WVP) is to make sure the land will be suitable for residents.

The 73-acre site stretches from Lakeshore Rd. W. to the lakefront and Pine Ave. to Mississauga Rd. It was the former site of a brickworks until 1932, and an oil refinery owned by Texaco until the mid-1980s before being bought by Imperial Oil. The land sat idle for years and residents wondered what would be done with it.

The City of Mississauga reached out to residents for ideas and in 2015 released Inspiration Port Credit, a report which called for the site to be revitalized as "a lakefront urban neighbourhood of landscapes, meeting places, living, working, and drawing people to the water's edge to play." Living, of course, means the plan includes residential buildings. The plan, we now know in concrete terms, includes about 2,500 housing units ranging from townhomes to mid- and high-rises. But it's not just a simple matter of building the homes.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.insauga.com/from-brownfields-to-bustling-waterfront-how-developers-are-preparing-inspiration-port-credit

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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