18.55 riverfront acres. An 1870 heritage mill turned sovereign Canadian AI data centre. Robotics labs, smaller and more affordable smart homes, a 24-hour flagship library, a world-class wellness and longevity centre, a venture studio, vertical gardens and urban farms, and a waterfront civic plaza threaded with water features. Five minutes to Highway 401, walking distance to the future ION LRT extension, and an existing pedestrian bridge straight to Riverside Park. The leading edge of Canadian AI, built into a real place where people live, work, gather, grow, and stay well.
SPUR Smart Village is a master-planned community on the site of a 1870 brick-and-beam woollen mill at the edge of Cambridge's Hespeler core. One place, nine pillars. Sovereign AI infrastructure, robotics and maker labs, smaller and more affordable live-work homes, a world-class 24-hour library and learning commons, a working venture studio, a wellness and longevity centre, vertical gardens and urban farms, a public civic square on the river threaded with water features, and a closed-loop energy system where the data centre heats the village and the waterfalls cool the compute. Walking distance to the future LRT, five minutes to the 401, direct frontage on the Speed River with an existing pedestrian bridge straight into Riverside Park.
NVIDIA Blackwell-class data centre inside the heritage mill. Canadian on-soil, tier-grade build, engineered to SOC 2 / ISO 27001.
High-bay robotics and hardware labs in converted mill bays. Hardware-in-the-loop space, prototyping shop, integration cells.
A smaller-unit, more-affordable mix across townhouses, mid-rise, and two riverside towers. AI-aware utilities, in-suite compute, fibre-to-the-unit, and an unusually generous wrap of shared community spaces designed for collaboration, health, and innovation.
A civic-scale public library built to world-class standards. Open all 24 hours. Silent reading halls, an immersive learning theatre, kids' and teens' zones, podcast and broadcast studios, a makerspace, and a 24/7 cafe. SPUR Learn's free AI curriculum runs out of it.
SPUR's full studio engine on site. Scholarships, capital pathways, a pitch theatre, and an ecosystem of mentors and operators.
A real public realm. Waterfront civic plaza, paddle launch, rock climbing, pickleball / padel courts, brewery, restaurants. The existing pedestrian bridge already links the site straight into Riverside Park.
A world-class wellness and longevity centre at the heart of the village. Fitness, recovery, preventative medicine, and mental-health services that promote physical and mental wellness across every life stage.
The village breathes. Vertical gardens climb the buildings, rooftop and ground-level urban farms grow food for residents and restaurants, and water features thread the public realm for cooling, calm, and play.
A closed-loop village. Waste heat from the AI data centre warms homes, greenhouses, and wellness pools. River-fed waterfalls and water features cool the compute hall and the public realm. Solar canopies, battery storage, and a district microgrid run the rest.
Full build-out across ~2.0 million square feet of mixed-use, 12 buildings, three phases. Numbers from the revised site strategy.
A flagship public library and learning commons built to world-class standards. Civic anchor, not an amenity. Free, public, and never closed.
A world-class fitness and movement centre at the heart of the village - strength, cardio, studios, climbing, and an aquatic centre, free to residents and open long hours.
Selected renders from the SPUR Smart Village design pack. River frontage, heritage mill conversion, civic plaza, residences, and the sovereign Canadian compute hall inside the mill.
Built in three deliberate phases so the village comes alive year by year. Each phase stands on its own and adds capacity for the next.
Heritage mill restoration, first data hall fit-out, robotics + makers labs, venture studio, 24-hour library and learning commons, wellness and longevity centre, first vertical gardens and rooftop farm, village square with water features and cooling waterfalls, district microgrid and heat-recovery loop from the data centre, restaurants and brewery, first affordable smart-home blocks fronting the river. The existing pedestrian bridge already connects the site to Riverside Park.
Two riverside residential towers (Buildings 9 + 10, 25 and 22 storeys). Expanded innovation floors. Civic programming reaches steady state. Pickleball / padel, climbing, paddle launch open to the public.
Final affordable smart-home blocks on the park edge. Vertical gardens, urban farms, and water features at full extent across the village. Full village population resident; transit and walking links to the broader Hespeler community fully built; the existing Riverside Park bridge anchors a continuous public realm from mill to park.
The site has been a SPUR-owned, SPUR-operated data centre site since 2023. Existing fabric, power, and security already meet the sovereign Canadian compute standard. The village builds out from a real, working core.
