Briarwood Site Development

If you haven’t seen the proposals for redevelopment of the Briarwood site, please check out the information posted by the Town Of Port Credit Association (TOPCA) on their website.
Development is being proposed in a few stages starting with a new Shopper’s Drug Mart and Walk-In clinic where the car dealership used to be (the Shopper’s at Credit Landing would be relocated to here). After that, a BMO branch is also proposed.

There is an official reaction from the TOPCA and it is similar to my own thoughts. I love what has been done with the streetscape at Hwy 10 and Lakeshore with the new storefronts on the south side and the low rise condos behind. The appearance is modern and clean while still adding some useful density to the area. It has a feel similar to parts of Oakville and is a move in the right direction for the village.

I was hoping for something similar for the Briarwood site so that the whole village starts to feel connected from one end to the other. The Shopper’s and BMO are nice but they don’t go far enough in keeping with the vision of how the community should be developed. Let’s put some units on top of the stores and add in spaces for smaller niche marketers, upscale establishments, cafes and restaurants and keep what was started to the east going in the same direction in the west part of the village.

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