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Originally Posted by thistleclub

Behind-the-curtain?

PED13055 was co-prepared by Creative Industries' Business Development Consultant Jacqueline Norton, who is both the author of 2009's contentious Building a Creative Catalyst Feasibility Study and better half of Glen Norton, Manager of Urban Renewal for the City of Hamilton, partner in the Studios at Hotel Hamilton and head of Hamilton Realty Capital Corporation, the organization behind the Cannon Knitting Mills project.

When the original Tivoli announcement was made at City Hall, then-Mayor DiIanni pointedly told the media he would be abstaining from any votes around the Tivoli because his wife Janet sat on the on board of CBYE at that time.

Mayor Bratina had apparently been involved with the proposal in the year leading up to the sale during his first term as Ward 2 Councillor; the sale itself was announced 10 weeks before the 2006 municipal election. More recently, the Diamante family donated a total of $2,375 between Mayor Bratina's two post-election fundraisers.

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