There’s
Mattina virtually next door and
Pane Del Sole two blocks west. It’s a five-minute walk from the International Village and James North, a
Food Basics, a
Shopper’s Drug Mart as well as a handful of "
old Hamilton"
fixtures. A 10-minute walk gets you to King and James. It's reasonably convenient.
270 Sherman, meanwhile, is a 10-minute walk to
Tim Hortons,
Frank's Sicilia Bakery,
Staropolskie,
Karolina's and
Karlik and a 15-minute walk to the mouth of the
Sherman Inlet. The relative isolation is a selling point -- this is a place people go to get work done, free of distraction. It’s an industrial facility in an neighbourhood of factories. North of the tracks from Sherman to Parkdale, the population density is roughly 20 times lower than south of the tracks... and roughly 30 times lower than Beasley. (Incidentally, the 270 Sherman tract had the distinction of being home to Hamilton’s lowest housing values -- $87,438 on average -- as of the 2006 census.)