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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
I don't think it was all that disparaging to the city -- it's true that the Stelco and Dofasco lands are "foreboding" to look at (and while AM Dofasco will be undergoing its own transformation to new fuel sources which should make it a cleaner operation, its plants will likely still be there for a long time to come).
Though I do hate how the steel mills have tainted so many outsider opinions about the city. People forget that for decades these factories provided so much economic activity and materials for the country! And perspectives about heavy industry have changed.
Hopefully the outcome does come close to the vision. Having public access to parts of the waterfront on that massive square of land will be revolutionary itself... as it was more than two decades ago for the west harbour.
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I like the view of the factories and flames from a distance at night.
That blogTO article is kind of exaggerated: "a tired rust belt-era Hamilton, Ontario skyline as a foreboding Mordor-like hellscape spitting flames into the sky" and "Flame belching industrial wasteland"