By Pepper Parr
February 25th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
It might turn out to be the most imaginative development City Hall has seen, something that could change the focal point of the city.
Today Ground Zero for Burlington is Spencer Smith Park and the intersection of Brant and Lakeshore Road.
That just might change.
Set out below are some of the renderings that will be presented at a Council Standing Committee next week on the development plans for the lands at 1200 King Road.
Much more to come – here is where it is all going to start.
The property sits between Hwy 403 on the north and the railway line on the south; between the Aldershot GO station on the west and King Road on the east.
The rendering is conceptual at this point. A lot of green space.
Could the Sound of Music be located here?
At least some of the area will be sifted for native artifacts. A similar archaeological assessment stopped construction of the new YMCA in Brantford for 18 months, added several million dollars to the cost of building and meant cutbacks to some features of the design. On the bright side over 400,000 artifacts were found, some dating back to 500 BCE. https://building.ca/gallery/laurier-brantford-ymca/
Editor’s note: There was some very low level manufacturing on the site. Foundations of some are still in place.
I have a number of flint tools that showed up in my garden, the Universaty of Texas were doing a study of native activity around the great lakes and they confirmed they were authentic.
Most of west Burlington is choked with traffic . The proposed site has only one acess. Leave it residential. Retail is dying .
The Sound of Traffic
Looks promising. Too bad the bridge over the tracks that connects King Road to the North Service Road was not widened when all the work in that area was being done (i.e. tunnelling under the tracks etc.). Right now, there is no viable transit in that area and the bridge is a choke point and congestion generator.
As to the reference to the area bounded by Brant St, our downtown and Spencer Smith Park, that area is experiencing transmogrification.
Correction, I meant the bridge over the 403.
Editor’s note: I believe that bridge is already scheduled for a widening – it will be tied into the extension of the Service Road that currently comes out of the Aldershot GO station.
Campus??Is this a school?