Comment 85418

By bvb borussia (anonymous) | Posted January 23, 2013 at 09:40:39

This developer isn't planning to rip these storefronts down and rebuild with popsicle sticks. I am certain that he we would not go to all this trouble to lose money. He wants to attract businesses and individuals to occupy these buildings. It therefore behooves him to restore these buildings with some semblance of good taste. Whether or not that taste matches your is irrelevant. Don't like the new look? Don't invest. But please don't sit in the audience to heckle and jeer while someone else has the guts to get on stage.

These buildings are in very poor shape. I could understand the argument if they were immaculately maintained and preserved tributes to Hamilton's past. The truth is they're not. Without investment these buildings will continue to deteriorate and blight.

Investors have not been beating down a path to investment in downtown Hamilton. This city has been bereft of meaningful investment for years. As every municipality west of Toronto as grown and prospered we have stagnated and declined. We have finally reached a point where money is beginning to trickle in and there is a chance at renewal. Let's not scare people away with red tape and NIMBYism.

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