Comment 73263

By jason (registered) | Posted January 23, 2012 at 14:56:17 in reply to Comment 73262

A Sportsnet reporter stated that Ivor Wynne was 'downtown' during Saturday's broadcast which I started watching yesterday to get a different angle of the game. 'Downtown'. Barton, King, Ottawa Street, and Main have the landscape to extend downtown. Perhaps if we stop looking at the stadium community as 'Ward 3' or lower city suburbia, and more of an extension of downtown, we can see this whole project from a different light. We have a small downtown. Is there the capability to truly extend that over the next 10 years or so?

You are so bang here it's not even funny. I tell people all the time to go ride the Queen streetcar in TO. Or check out how long and urban King Street is. Or College, Danforth etc..... Of course Sportsnet thinks the stadium is 'downtown' because they are from Toronto where the urban corridors that radiate from their downtown have the same urban feel, albeit with more family homes and low density than right downtown. How often have you heard someone say "I live in downtown Toronto - in the Beaches or High Park" etc.... Hamilton's King and Main can, and should have the same commercial vibrancy across their entire lengths someday. The housing stock is spectacular, and don't forget - this isn't some forgotten wasteland - house prices on the nicer streets continue to rise rapidly after all these years. http://www.harbourproperties.ca/hamilton...

Two-way conversions, or street calming along with LRT, friendly sidewalks, trees and flexible zoning could see King Street become our Queen in the next 15 years. Various neighbourhoods all with their own vibe and flair, linked with LRT and full of street-front shopping that supports the neighbourhood makeup.

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