Downtown Strategy


Help shape our city - Downtown Strategy


About the project

The City of Mississauga is creating a downtown for today and tomorrow. To do this, we’re developing a new guiding document called the Downtown Strategy. This Strategy will build on the success of the Downtown Core and provide direction for the future. It will reflect what people want to see – a vibrant place to live, work, learn, be entertained, raise a family and most of all, choose to be.

The Downtown Strategy seeks to set a vision and plan for Downtown Mississauga by answering the following questions:

  • What are the Downtown’s strengths?
  • Where are the opportunities? (e.g. to make it easy to live, work, play, shop, gather and learn in the Downtown)
  • What are our needs and aspirations for the Downtown?
  • What is our vision for the future and what actions will get us there?

The Strategy will build on the Downtown21 Master Plan (2010) - a plan that first outlined a vision to transform the Downtown from "suburban to urban" and laid the foundation for the current downtown core. For more information on the Downtown21 Master Plan, please visit mississauga.ca/downtown.

For a map of key attractions in Downtown Mississauga, please click here.


COVID-19 Community Engagement Update: While we continue to respond to this pandemic, we are working hard to deliver essential services and projects to keep our City moving and safe. While we can’t connect in-person at this time, we still want to connect! Please find on this site the ways you can keep updated on this project’s progress and share your opinions and ideas.


Have your say

Whether you live, learn, work or play in Downtown Mississauga, get involved and have your say on what our downtown can be.



Help shape our city - Downtown Strategy


About the project

The City of Mississauga is creating a downtown for today and tomorrow. To do this, we’re developing a new guiding document called the Downtown Strategy. This Strategy will build on the success of the Downtown Core and provide direction for the future. It will reflect what people want to see – a vibrant place to live, work, learn, be entertained, raise a family and most of all, choose to be.

The Downtown Strategy seeks to set a vision and plan for Downtown Mississauga by answering the following questions:

  • What are the Downtown’s strengths?
  • Where are the opportunities? (e.g. to make it easy to live, work, play, shop, gather and learn in the Downtown)
  • What are our needs and aspirations for the Downtown?
  • What is our vision for the future and what actions will get us there?

The Strategy will build on the Downtown21 Master Plan (2010) - a plan that first outlined a vision to transform the Downtown from "suburban to urban" and laid the foundation for the current downtown core. For more information on the Downtown21 Master Plan, please visit mississauga.ca/downtown.

For a map of key attractions in Downtown Mississauga, please click here.


COVID-19 Community Engagement Update: While we continue to respond to this pandemic, we are working hard to deliver essential services and projects to keep our City moving and safe. While we can’t connect in-person at this time, we still want to connect! Please find on this site the ways you can keep updated on this project’s progress and share your opinions and ideas.


Have your say

Whether you live, learn, work or play in Downtown Mississauga, get involved and have your say on what our downtown can be.


  • Office Retention Policies

    One of the key priorities and direction for the Downtown is to encourage a better balance between residential and employment growth.

    We examined growth throughout the whole of the Downtown Urban Growth Centre (which includes the Downtown Core, Downtown Fairview, Downtown Cooksville and Downtown Hospital) and we are seeing a significant imbalance in growth, in favour of residential development.

    There is currently no official plan policy framework in place to ensure a consistent approach to retaining office space. On May 10th, we received direction from Planning and Development Committee to proceed with a city-initiated Official Plan Amendment (OPA).

    Through this OPA, we are proposing policy that would require the replacement of any existing office space through redevelopment. We are also exploring ways that the OPA could support community retail uses.

    For more information, please see the information report here.

    In the Fall, we will return to Planning and Development Committee for a Public Meeting, however in the meantime, if you have any questions please contact Mojan Jianfar.

  • Downtown Movement Plan – Engagement Summary Now Available!

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    Thank you to everyone that participated in the Downtown Movement Plan Virtual On-Demand meeting and provided input to help guide future transportation projects in the Downtown Core. Please see the draft Engagement Summary as well as the Virtual On-Demand Meeting materials. Please let us know if we have missed anything or we have anything to add by December 14, 2020.

    At our next round of engagement, we will consult with you on draft transportation recommendations for the Downtown Core. This will be held in Spring of 2021. Stay informed and connect with us by subscribing to our email list. If you have any questions or comments, please share them with us online using our Q&A tool or to downtown.strategy@mississauga.ca.


    Image showing interrelated timelines for Downtown Strategy and Downtown Movement Plan projects. Phase 1 of Downtown Movement Plan has finished. Phase 2 (which will be completed by Spring 2021) draft recommendations on a preferred multimodal network plan will inform Phase 2 of the Downtown Strategy which will also be completed by Spring 2021

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Page last updated: 21 October 2020, 13:04