Vaughan

 
"The city that grew up" from its rural foundations, Vaughan has been home to a unique form of uncontrolled growth that have seen industrial promenades, shopping areas, homes with small and large plots of land and ridiculously high-priced condos that just simply pop up within this decade.

This unique phenomenon is thanks to some overzealous planning by the minds that created this in the first place, which include city government officials to designers and rich people who earned a buck and are ready to invest on some cheap land freed by these city government officials.

Of course, the cheap land has now been hoarded and the prices have made the City of Vaughan much more hard to get, and though it's getting expensive to make this city your home, Vaughan has been trying to reinvent itself as "the place to be" from its present status as a bedroom community.

In recent years, the city has invested lots of their time developing their own "downtown", the Vaughan Corporate Centre as it's called in the books. Companies, retailers and hoteliers have been opening up new establishments here in anticipation for the transportation links that this barren district will get eventually.

The private expressway in the backwater of Vaughan Corporate Centre, Highway 407, will be home to a bus rapid transit service run by the currently provincial-run transport agency, GO Transit, and it's highly anticipated that they will build one of many stations needed across the route close to here.

The Region of York has been looking at this part of Vaughan as well, going as far as collaborating with the Toronto Transit Commission to extend the subway line from its current terminus in Downsview into Vaughan. This will also compliment the current Viva express routes that have been the bloodstream of the Vaughan Corporate Centre since its launch back in 2005.

At the moment, Vaughan has been developing this portion of land as an dense business areas, with Head Offices of a few companies located here. As well, there's the IKEA, which brings awfully versatile Swedish furniture to houses that need the decor. If you're not satisfied, there's always the Wal-mart up the street.

How is this important to us? Across the bridge and Highway 400 is Woodbridge; our current spiritual home, the community that's finally growing up.