The industrial land that used to pay for this city's services no longer does - but it's also not "available"?
Where were the aerotropolis proponents when walmart was lobbying the city to convert their land from industrial to retail?
The US steel land alone is 1.3 times the size of all of the port authority lands. Might be a good idea to figure out if that can be "made available" (more than doubling port auth lands) before scurrying to expand the urban boundary.
AEGD was pitched based on high acreage, low job density warehousing. Is that "productive use"?
How much did it cost us to attract canada bread and maple leaf?
The problem isn't ec dev's ability to understand industry needs. The problem is the way Hamilton chooses to fulfill those needs.
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