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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
It's not 2020. Vaughan has surpassed the don't expect much to come of it as far as skyscrapers are concerned which is the topic at hand. It has 9 skyscrapers built and under construction. It doesn't matter if it's a shithole today or an oasis surrounded by a shithole. It is 3 subway stops from the second largest university campus in the GTA.
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One transit station is nothing special, especially in a place hemmed in at all sides by highways and a rail yard. It's not like the rest of 905 won't have higher order transit. Markham Centre with all-day GO Train service will be very similar to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, but much less isolated. And of course Mississauga is getting a dozen LRT stations next year.
3 stops away from university campus? Again nothing special. Actually having a university campus would be more interesting. That would make it a destination.
I actually find that big power centre to the west right across the 400 more interesting. An existing major retail commercial area is something they can build upon, a place that is already a major destination by itself, rather than a way to get to Toronto. And it would be part of or an extension of an existing neighbourhood rather than an "oasis".