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Originally Posted by BrianE
I don't think anybody truly grasps the amount of land that Stelco and Dofasco own. Take a look at google maps. It's the same area as the downtown core, from Bay St. to Vicoria.
In a similar fashion to all the old mine sites in Northern Ontario, there's no reserve fund in place to pay for the clean up once Stelco is gone.
What do you do with an area of land that could fit another City of Hamilton but is also the dirtiest and most toxic piece of property in Southern Ontario?
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Start with money... thinking of the tax base that's possible - the amount of income every single year from a piece of waterfront property that size that's been cleaned up and properly redeveloped?
Now think about image... cleaning up a giant part of our city, changing its image to everyone who goes by, changing the image of the city to the entire city as well.
It would be an enormous project, and that's what gives it so much potential to change things... sure, it's intimidating and difficult and many will say "impossible!" .... but anything's possible.