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Downtown Markham is a planned urban hub and the largest planned mixed-use development in Canada. The development spans 243 acres and is situated in one of the fastest growing regions in the province. It will be the commercial and financial district at the center of the city of Markham, and will consist of a mix of residential, office and retail ...
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Markham Village (2006 population 6,090) [1] [2] is the historic town centre of Markham, Ontario, Canada.Originally settled in 1825, the village, which was originally named Reesorville (in reference to the Reesor family of settlers) sometime after 1804 and also known as Mannheim (likely after Mannheim, Germany), was founded by Mennonites from Upstate New York and Pennsylvania.
Cathedraltown is a planned neighbourhood with an estimated population of 3,000 [1] in the City of Markham, just north of Toronto. Cathedraltown was named after the Cathedral of the Transfiguration , around which the neighbourhood was built.
Unlike other Markham neighbourhoods, Cornell is a specially-designed planned community. US firm Duany Plater-Zyberk and Associates worked on designing Cornell as a new urbanist community in 1994, as a departure from conventional subdivision design; with a grid street pattern with an on-street retail corridor (more detail below) .
In September 2009, the Sifton family, owners of the airport, announced plans to re-develop the airport from 2009 to 2016 into a mixed use of commercial, retail and residential development. [10] In 2010, a joint real estate venture purchased the 170-acre property on 7 October, with the intention of redeveloping the property by Cadillac Fairview ...
Markham (/ ˈ m ɑːr k ə m /) is a city in York Region, Ontario, Canada.It is approximately 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Downtown Toronto.In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, [2] which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and 16th largest in Canada.
John Street allowed eastward developments. The development of Thornhill in the 19th century stopped at what is now Henderson Avenue, and along the section of John Street between Yonge Street and Henderson Avenue are developments from that time. [3] The area is now preserved under the city of Markham's Heritage Department.