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By geoff's two cents (registered) | Posted November 10, 2010 at 23:11:14

Jon, as you've said, the above is a lose-lose scenario: If that subsidized suburban hotel and phoney, cheesy "main street" in a sea of parking succeed, they'll do so at the expense of downtown; if they don't succeed, it'll just be a subsidized black hole.

Run while you still can, Hamilton!

I actually spent a day in the city this summer, and was pleasantly surprised at the gradual transformation taking place downtown; the difference from when I lived there two years ago is palpable. Among other things, I enjoyed a very nice cup of coffee on that lovely patio in the picture above. With so many people working hard to improve the downtown, and succeeding brilliantly without begging the city and province to pay their way, the fact that the likes of Bob Young & Co. are looking for a corporate welfare handout is just despicable. The fact that they were offered a very generous corporate welfare handout to begin with and turned it down because it wasn't good enough is simply beyond words. Good lord - I don't even live in Hamilton anymore, but I'm actually embarrassed (as a former resident and Canadian citizen) that the city would even consider taking something like this seriously, and spending tens of millions of public dollars on it to boot.

Comment edited by geoff's two cents on 2010-11-10 22:16:12

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