Fairview

Fairview is the pocket between Square One and Cooksville: Burnhamthorpe Road West to the north, Hurontario Street to the east, the CPKC rail line and Cooksville GO Station to the south, and Mavis Road to the west.

Fairview has two distinct markets. West of Hurontario, on Fairview Road West, Joan Drive, Kirwin Avenue and the streets around Dr. Martin L. Dobkin Community Park, the stock is 1960s to 1980s detached and semi detached houses: bungalows, side splits and modest two storeys on standard suburban lots, many with finished basements and some with in law suites given the closeness to the GO station. Along Hurontario and Central Parkway West are the older condo apartments and rental towers of the 1970s and 1980s, with large suites and inclusive fees. Over the past two decades a third layer has arrived: high rise condominiums such as Eve and Elle on Kariya Drive near Burnhamthorpe and, more recently, the Edge Towers on Elm Drive West beside Cooksville GO, with smaller one and two bedroom suites and hotel style amenities. The result is a neighbourhood where a 1965 bungalow and a 30 storey tower can share a block, and where the low rise streets are increasingly valued for what surrounds them.

Cooksville GO Station at 3210 Hurontario Street anchors the south corner: Milton line trains to Union in the peak direction, GO buses the rest of the day, a station building completed in November 2020 and a 1,458 space parking structure. MiWay routes 2 Hurontario, 4 North Service Road, 28 Confederation, 38 Creditview, 53 Kennedy and 103 Hurontario Express all connect there, and City Centre Transit Terminal is across Burnhamthorpe. The Hazel McCallion Line will run up Hurontario in its own lane with a Cooksville stop at John Street and a Fairview stop, renamed from Central Parkway, at the neighbourhood's middle; Metrolinx expects construction to wrap in 2028 before testing begins. Highway 403 is minutes north via Hurontario or Mavis Road and the QEW minutes south.

Fairview Public School at 3590 Joan Drive serves Peel District School Board students from kindergarten to grade 5 inside the neighbourhood, and with Corsair Public School and others it feeds T.L. Kennedy Secondary School at 3100 Hurontario Street, just south of the rail line, open since 1953 with Specialist High Skills Majors in business and technology. Catholic families have St. Giovanni Scalabrini Catholic Elementary School at 225 Central Parkway West and Father Michael Goetz Catholic Secondary School at 330 Central Parkway West, opened in 1987 and on its current site since 1990, both inside Fairview. Sheridan College's Hazel McCallion Campus at 4180 Duke of York Boulevard is a walk north past Square One. Boundaries move with enrolment and new towers, so confirm the assigned school for any address with the boards.

Dr. Martin L. Dobkin Community Park at 395 Fairview Road West is the neighbourhood's own park, with City View Park, Fairview Park and part of John Bud Cleary Park adding smaller greens. For most everything else you walk north: Square One at 100 City Centre Drive, the largest shopping centre in Ontario with more than 360 stores, Celebration Square and the Living Arts Centre are across Burnhamthorpe Road, with City Centre Transit Terminal and the GO bus terminal attached to the mall. South, Cooksville's Dundas Street strip is a long row of restaurants and small groceries from every corner of the world, and the plazas along Hurontario handle pharmacies and errands. The Mississauga Valley Community Centre and Library, with its pool and arena, is east across Hurontario on Mississauga Valley Boulevard, and Cooksville Creek and its trail run just beyond it.

Fairview suits commuters first: you can walk to Cooksville GO from most of the neighbourhood and, once the LRT opens, ride to Square One or Port Credit from the Fairview stop. First time buyers and investors look at the towers on Elm Drive West and Kariya Drive for that reason. Families and downsizers who want a bungalow or a semi within walking distance of a GO station, a park and a Catholic high school find them on Joan Drive and Fairview Road West. It is a compact neighbourhood, so it suits people who value location over lot size.