Massive lakefront development to add 898 more units in Mississauga

A Mississauga lakefront development is moving ahead with plans to add 898 units.

Known as the Brightwater, the 72-acre development at 70 Mississauga Rd. S. and 181 Lakeshore Rd. W. submitted plans to add 898 units for a total of 3,893 units in April of 2024.

Mississauga’s Planning and Development Committee voted in favour of the additional units and a plan to increase the building heights to a maximum of 35 storeys last October. The 2019 approvals were for a total of 2,995 units and a maximum building height of 29 storeys. The increased heights and two additional apartment buildings will accommodate the additional units.

At its next meeting on Nov. 10, the committee is now considering the rezoning application to implement the increases.

The master-planned Brightwater development was approved in 2019 and started construction in October 2021. Residents have moved into the first and second phases of the development, including the popular new Farm Boy store.

The project is a mixed-use development with apartments, townhouses, back-to-back townhouses and live work units that will include a mix of sizes and bedrooms.

Brightwater plans seen in 2019.

A total of 18 acres of public park space, including a waterfront park, a linear park both in the middle of the site and on the easterly side of the site and a trail along the westerly property line, are in the plans. And there is an option for the construction of a school on the east side of the site for the Peel District School Board.

Several community benefits, which were approved in the Ontario Land Tribunal settlement in 2019, remain unchanged in this rezoning application, according to the report to the Planning and Development Committee.

The benefits include:

• 150 affordable housing units that will be under the Region of Peel’s housing portfolio, which is currently constructed and undergoing tenant occupation
• The construction of 150 purpose-built market rental units (yet to be provided)
• $150,000 towards traffic calming measures
• $250,000 towards a pedestrian bridge across the Credit River
• Enter into a letter of intent with the YMCA for a proposed community facility

For more information on the rezoning, see the committee meeting agenda and reports here.