Mississauga M3 at M City | 260.29m | 77s | Rogers Real Estate | Arcadis

[Tim MacDonald]

this thing is getting real tall!
Although it looks a bit lonely standing alone lol
Can’t wait for m4 to balance it out a bit
Anyways, photos from today:


Side note: anybody know what this concrete slab is?
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It's actually plastic sheeting:

 

[OpenClosed]

It's actually plastic sheeting:
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Ohhh I see. That’s actually pretty cool, thanks for telling me

 

[drum118]

I shot this today, @drum118 and it is now at floor 61. I'll probably have a post with photos of it on my Bluesky account in a few days.

Thanks. I also shot it from this distance today as well and February was the month it would become the tallest in Mississauga for the next few decades or more unless someone decided to build something taller at least 10 years down the road. The GTTA may have a say what gets built taller since they change their fly path over the city core and has opposed a few 50's and 70's towers already.

Until about 10-15 years ago, planes never flew over the centre core when taking off to the point, residents file a complaint with the airport and the city due to the noise. The city ended up reducing property taxes for those who where effected by the planes flying over their property. Been in a few homes before the planes started to fly over them to the point you had to stop talking to anyone as they flew over the home. I can heard them a mile from my place now as they climb and very close to M1-M3 now..

 

[drum118]

Feb 8

 

[drum118]

The gap between M1 and M3 is made even larger by M1’s very wide podium and an extra sliver of land dedicated as park land that will serve to connect the new M City park to the park/trail west of the parkside village.

Re M6-M9, I thought the plan calls for only 3 towers in the still undeveloped space, so there would be no M9.

It also has to due to allow more sunlight in for the area compared to canyon towers that block the sunlight

 

[Tim MacDonald]

Thanks. I also shot it from this distance today as well and February was the month it would become the tallest in Mississauga for the next few decades or more unless someone decided to build something taller at least 10 years down the road. The GTTA may have a say what gets built taller since they change their fly path over the city core and has opposed a few 50's and 70's towers already.

Until about 10-15 years ago, planes never flew over the centre core when taking off to the point, residents file a complaint with the airport and the city due to the noise. The city ended up reducing property taxes for those who where effected by the planes flying over their property. Been in a few homes before the planes started to fly over them to the point you had to stop talking to anyone as they flew over the home. I can heard them a mile from my place now as they climb and very close to M1-M3 now..

The only jets I can hear from inside my place in Erin Mills when they are departing YYZ and making the left turn between 5,000 and 7,000ft towards the lake are some of the A330s going across the pond, any of the 747s, and the A380. I don't hear the 777-300s or any of the A350s and Dreamliners. I could almost set my watch for bed when I would hear Alitalia grinding it out with their maxed out A330-200s heading back to Rome.

There have been a few times where traffic departing Pearson has nearly smoked some of the condo buildings in Etobicoke. The one that I know personally was back in 1999 or 2000 when an American airlines Fokker 100 was departing runway 15 in fog ( very seldom did you see 15 departures). I had a condo unit facing northwest near centennial park and had the balcony door open when I saw lights and then heard the roar. Even when I worked on some of those very same airplanes (and possibly that very same airframe) a decade earlier I had never heard RR Tay engines so loud! It probably cleared the building by two or three hundred feet. That thing turned way too early instead of flying the runway heading. To this day I have no idea why it was directly over the building or why an F100 making the short hop to LGA wouldn't be higher after using an 11,050 ft runway. Too bad Flightradar24.com didn't exist back then!

I'm not really understanding the mechanical penthouse at Exchange tower. I thought it would be like Edge where there is a double height floor holding chillers and such. At exchange it is two single height, separate floors connected with a staircase. There was no mechanical equipment installed when I flew over it yesterday unlike some other builds like M1 and 2 where the building was constructed around it. So maybe there might be another floor on top of this one?

 

[drum118]

Feb 10
From now until the tower is top off late this year, it will continue to clear who is the tallest tower in the city and skyline for decades until something taller comes along. Shot from Hurontario St

Few more up on my site

 

[Tim MacDonald]

Some photos from Saturday:

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There are also some Exchange District and Voya photo posts as well. No Bluesky account needed to view the posts.

 

[khaldoon]

It's actually plastic sheeting:
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But those 2 floors do seem to have higher ceilings so maybe the covered sections will hold some mechanical equipment or maybe wind dampers.

 

[JoeParez]

Feb 10
From now until the tower is top off late this year, it will continue to clear who is the tallest tower in the city and skyline for decades until something taller comes along. Shot from Hurontario St

Few more up on my site

You didn't get a picture of me taking field measurements!


Taken from the underside of the third floor slab on the south elevation:

 

[ImmenselyMental]

February 17, 2025

From outside Entrance 3 at Square One:

Zoomed in:

 

[GenerationLee]

Also from yesterday

 

[Lake Ontario]

02/20/2024:

 

[GenerationLee]

From yesterday, at J C Saddington

 

[GenerationLee]

Yesterday, walking from my old stomping grounds. (the first image is a bit of a dud due to how much this relies on my cell phones camera, but its good for showing the distant view of these buildings, even though this isn't that far from these towers)