Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
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Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Downtown Vaughan |
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| Neighbourhood | |
| Motto: It'll Move You | |
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| Coordinates: 43°47′37″N 79°31′38″W / 43.7935°N 79.52727°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| Regional Municipality | York |
| City | Vaughan |
| District | Vaughan Metropolitan Centre |
| Area code(s) | 905, 289 |
| Website | VaughanMetroCentre.ca |
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is the proposed 125-acre (0.51 km2) central business district, centered at the intersection of Highway 400 and Highway 7, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It will be linked by the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre transit terminal, which will connect Line 1 Yonge-University of the Toronto subway with VIVA bus rapid transit services.
The council for the City of Vaughan announced in early 2009 that they wanted public submissions to suggest a new name for what was then proposed as the Vaughan Corporate Centre. In July, 2009, the Council announced it chose the new name, "Vaughan Metropolitan Centre", out of 1569 entries.[1][2]
Influential businessman, Mitch Goldhar, has owned the 100-acre site since the mid-1990s; 40 acres of it are now owned by developers Rudy Bratty and Silvio DeGasperis, and the remainder by Goldhar’s firms. [3] Prominent businesses having property in the Centre include Toromont, Wal-Mart, AMC Theaters, Lowe's, and Future Shop. Sam's Club had been located there before it closed down in March 2009. Two hotels operated by Marriott and one by Hilton, are also located at the Centre, as well as a Monte Carlo Inn. The core of the centre is approximately 1000m long (west to east) and 400m wide (north to south), although the plans for the Centre also include lands immediately outside this core zone.
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