PHOTOS: High-rise towers and over 1,300 units planned for old Apple Factory site in Brampton

Plans are in the works to turn a decades-old, iconic Brampton establishment into a new housing development made up of three high-rise apartment towers and hundreds of stacked townhouses.

The proposed development is just off the corner of Bovaird Drive West and Mississauga Road at what used to be the Apple Factory Country Grocer, which closed its doors for the last time on Christmas Eve after a 44-year run in Brampton.

Developers are looking to transform the site into a mixed-use urban hub with three high-rise towers standing between 23 and 25 storeys tall and six blocks of stacked townhouses along with retail shops and medical offices.

In total the development could add some 1,302 residential units to Brampton with 238 townhouse units and 1,064 apartments.

The proposed development is a part of the larger Mount Pleasant Heights community, which will include low, medium, and high-density residential developments, an elementary school, community services, parks and a new road network.

The community would also be located near the Mount Pleasant GO station and would have two levels of underground parking as well as surface parking for more than 1,50 spaces, including nearly 200 spots for retail shoppers.

The City of Brampton designated a farmhouse on the Apple Factory property as a heritage site in 2021, which was a settler farm with an orchard owned by Margaret Brien. In 1880, a farmer named James H. Scott purchased the land, where he built the farmhouse in the early 1880s.

The heritage home is now in the way of a Region of Peel plan to widen Mississauga Road from four to six lanes to accommodate the new residential developments, and a report prepared on behalf of Glen Rouge Developments proposes demolishing the home and salvaging and documenting elements of the home.

Owner Jim Picard took over the Apple Factory from founders Roy and Lenore Laidlaw in 2007. General Manager Jim Hurt thanked the community for years of memories in a statement that customer’s “joy and satisfaction have always been our greatest reward.”