Cornell

Located at the northeast corner of the urbanized GTA, the Cornell community was planned on a greenfield site, and includes the Markham Stouffville Hospital, which opened in 1990. The community is situated east of Ninth Line and north of Hwy 407.

Cornell is a planned community, designed in the mid- 1990’s by Duany Plater-Zyberk, an internationally recognized design firm. Cornell was designed according to principles of New Urbanism, which is an approach to urban development that promotes walkable, mixed-use communities that value connectivity, high quality design and human-scaled open space. The Cornell Community was masterplanned in accordance with these principles. The overall vision for Cornell included a series of local neighbourhoods organized around a retail corridor along Bur Oak Avenue and an integrated open space network that provides linkages to the surrounding natural areas and countryside.

Within Cornell, there are a number of smaller defined areas, including:

  • Cornell Centre
  • Cornell Rouge
  • Cornell Village
  • Grand Cornell
  • Upper Cornell
  • South Cornell (coming soon)

Read more about the community of Cornell at Wikipedia.

Learn more about the most recent (2012) Cornell Centre Secondary Plan here.

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