[TheHonestMaple]

Yeah I mean Barton Village has some serious potential. Close to downtown, heritage buildings, decent landscaping. Unfortunately right now I think the place needs some higher earning residents before we can see things really take off there. I do hope that the condo builds that will follow the LRT down King will spur some economic development not far away on Barton. Maybe someday we'll see Barton get it's very own LRT line.

I really wish the damn city/province would just expropriate some of these lots that Impark and others are sitting on and rezone the land for high desnity residential. Then sell them off to developers for below market price with the stipulation that it gets built within 3 years. Could be done as a lottery. It's been done before in other cities, and it would seriously accelerate the economic development of Hamilton. One can dream.