Comment 90799

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted August 12, 2013 at 01:13:43 in reply to Comment 90785

A valid point brought up here, that I feel this article twists. Perhaps yes, the word integrate would imply a direct link to the stadium prescient, and expropriating that many houses is not only costly and politically unsound, it really shouldn't happen. Even if these houses are cookie cutter, 60s housing, in various states of repair and are the exact same type of housing development we scream against when it happens on the edge of the city, these are people's homes and isn't a requirement for a substantial brownfield remediation as is the case in the West Harbour (except for maybe the ones Lloyd St)

The north side of Barton street to the rails is a swarm of street parking https://www.raisethehammer.org/comment/9... (which we agree is a deterrent to a health urban environment), abandoned industry and failed or generic storefronts with one maybe two buildings of worth (specifically St. Vladimir's church and arguably the building at Barton and Melrose) which boarder the land parcel, and could easily be left alone.

Better though to take a negative spin, and salt the earth with anything progressive the Ti-Cats might do, or make honest suggestions/alterations to said plans and try to reach a compromise, because we can't ever drop any wrong done in this city and move forward.

Still waiting for the Randle Reef mess to get cleaned up, but hopefully not much longer!

http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/18/hamilton-randle-reef-announcement.html

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