Comment 55957

By Zephyr (registered) | Posted January 12, 2011 at 11:27:04

@George

I too am optimistic about the future of this city. I have lived in the North End for 9 years (time flies). In this time, I have observed a slow-building momentum in the James North/North End neighbourhoods, and it is starting to reach a critical mass. It makes sense to invest our Future Fund (and the fed/prov funds) where they will do the most good - an area where people are already investing in and clamouring to start businesses. An area of natural beauty that is already an athletics destination with amazing rollerblading in good weather and an outdoor ice rink in the winter.

The reason I bought a house where I did is that when I was fresh out of university in the 1990s I had a job interview that was held in the Yacht Club building at the North End, and thought to myself that this was the most beautiful area of Hamilton (I had never been there before). I ended up living in England for many years, but when I returned with a house downpayment, I immediately searched the area and bought the first decent house I could find. The point of my story is people WANT to live and play on waterfront areas. In any city you can name. Hamilton has the opportunity to continue to develop its waterfront into a destination for all the people of Hamilton (and not just a few lucky condo-dwellers). Incidentally I worked in San Francisco for a couple of years and brought my husband back to the North End a few years ago, and he is amazed at the beauty of where we live and the incredible unspoiled potential of the area. Too often Hamiltonians do not realize what we have here!

We need COMMUNITY amateur athletics facilities, as well as the velodrome which will leave a legacy for high-performance amateur athletics for our city. I believe Hamiltonians are some of the least-fit of all Canadians according to surveys I read last year. This is an opportunity to build a healthy alternative for all residents of this city.

Or we can blow the entire PanAm games windfall on renovating a stadium for a failing business, and make that our legacy.

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