It is investing $56 million in a new Mississauga research and development facility. It’s startling departure for Mississauga after decades of urban sprawl, which featured wide single-family housing in vast subdivisions and low-slung commercial buildings in strip-mall-style plazas surrounded by acres space for parking. “It’s a combination of different factors,” says Ed Sajecki, the man in charge of planning and building in Mississauga, explaining the historic changes taking place. “The U.S. doesn’t really have anything like Mississauga, in the sense of a major suburban municipality with major highrises and increasingly diverse transit options,” he told the Star. Mississauga is kind of like an indicator of what needs to happen more.”Sajecki says residents are driving the rapid changes.

Source: thestar October 20, 2016 09:56 UTC