Comment 36632

By Bob Bratina (anonymous) | Posted December 29, 2009 at 08:49:13

Innovation Park was supposed to be a "premier research park", in which the City invested $5 million dollars. The list of tenants shows a wealth management company, an insurance provider, and a "faculty of family medicine, all taken from Hamilton's Downtown core and in no way related to the innovation park mandate. The loss of Assante Capital and Masters insurance is further evidence that upscale businesses would prefer that their customers and staff not have to mingle with the many discomforting and often menacing individuals who predominate in the core. It also points to the unlikelihood that Innovation Park will live up to its promise. Our purchase of contaminated lands in the so-called innovation district can only lead to more losses as other parts of the City continue to feed on our Downtown, with affordable housing in the Connaught the limit of our vision.

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