[Innsertnamehere]

The amazing thing is that downtown office vacancy drops have largely been because of smaller local businesses - all the large corporations pulled out of downtown 25 years ago and none of them have yet to really come back. Which I don't really understand, space in the 100 king west for example is relatively affordable and is just awesome office space.

I'm guessing it's because of parking issues for staff who mostly drive from other parts of the 905, but still. I truly believe 30 minute service to Hamilton Centre GO would be able to transform the Downtown Office Market for that reason (though West Harbour is great, it's just a little too far from downtown).

Historic Google streetview is good if you want to explore Hamilton of 2007 or 2009 to sort of see how it was.

I'm a relatively recent Hamilton transplant however my limited visits to the City in the 2000's and early-mid 2010's are burned in my brain in how different the city was to today.