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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
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Well, currently it seems to be building about 5 buildings per year. The office park covers about 1500 acres. Lets say about 50% is land that will be public (parks, schools) or is occupied existing buildings that are good enough as is. That leaves about 750 acres. The new sprawling midrises cover about 3 acres each, while point towers are about 1 acre, so lets say 2 acres per building on average. Seems like Tysons is building 2-3 per year so far and slowing down (not sure why). So, should take about 150 years to finish. See you in 2170 then?...
Mississauga Center has been build about 2-3 highrises per year too. Although it doesn't do sprawling midrises like American cities do, it does mix in some townhouses with its point towers, so it averages about 2 acres developed per tower too. The pace of construction is currently increasing, with 3 towers completed at the start of this year, and 15 under construction set to be complete by 2024, and another 15 proposed. The main difference though is that there's much land to redevelop, maybe around 200-250 acres. It could take as little as 25-30 years to finish.
Also the phasing with Mississauga Center is probably better. Because the owners of Square One seem to be biding their time to redevelop their land into condos and are waiting for the rest of the area to get redeveloped, that means that the redevelopment that is currently taking place is being channeled into relatively small areas - the first around Confederation Parkway (Parkside Village, M City and 4220 Living Arts Dr projects), the second around Kariya Dr (Tempo, Kariya Gate, Exchange District, Edge, 3606 Hurontario, 185 Enfield). That means you'd have an area about 260 acres in size that will be built out within 5-10 years, which is about the same land area as New Orlean's French Quarter, so a decent sized neighbourhood.
With Tysons Corners, it seems like the new development is much more scattered.
Also another advantage for Mississauga is that most of the land to be developed is either low density commercial of vacant lots, so they can easily be redeveloped into a configuration that makes sense. With Tysons, you have a lot more existing office buildings. A lot of those will be tricky to urbanize because they're set back from the street, but the setback is often not big enough to squeeze a whole new building into it.