Comment 69093

By Art Brut (anonymous) | Posted September 06, 2011 at 12:31:45

Hamilton might want to consider taking a cue or two from its business-minded neighbour across the bay, specifically the 10-year-old Team Burlington initiative that housed multiple key orgs at one central, highly visible address, amking coordinated and efficient .

http://tourismburlington.com/about-burlington/team-burlington

Right now, Hamilton has:

• Hamilton Chamber of Commerce on the floor above the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club (555 Bay St N.)
• Downtown BIA in the eighth floor of the Union Gas Building (20 Hughson St. S.)
• Tourism Hamilton in the street-front of the Pigott Building (admin) and Jackson Square Food Court (service bureau)
• Hamilton Economic Development on the seventh floor of City Hall (71 Main St. W.)

It would make far more sense to centralize all of those entities (as well as EcDev's related youth entrepreneurial arm Hamilton Hive) into one of the the Yale vacancies (maybe the Bank of Montreal building at 1 James North, maybe the Robert Thomson Building at 110 King St. W., both of which lease out at a third the square footage cost of Lister) and focus on visibility, accessibility and measurable results based on strategic plans. Hamilton has been infatuated with buzzwords-du-jour and warm PR fuzzies for too long. That's nice, but it's no way to build an innovative city.

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