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Originally Posted by raisethehammer
speaking of 'hacks' I can't believe what I just read - "How can you "send business" to any place? Business decides where it wants to set up."
I'll tell you how - stop subsidizing sprawl. stop having the government pay for mega-highways in order to make this sprawl somewhat livable. Start charging more than 15 or 20% of the development costs to developers - try 75 -80%.
hamilton's urban core is in 'rough' condition because the downtown businesses and residents have subsidized sprawl for 3 decades...and lo and behold, there's no money in the city coffers.
Cities should determine where growth and business will go. Business will go where it's cheap and convenient. Right now that is on productive farmland because our governments are so far in the sack with them they won't make proper planning choices for our cities.
Business should be flocking to downtown Toronto and Hamilton, not leaving for no-man's land.
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??? And what does any of that have to do with my statement? I was not saying you cannot attract or keep business in downtown Toronto, I was saying you cannot just approach business and ask them to relocate (hence the word "
send" not "attract") to Hamilton. Had you read my next sentence:"
Every downtown of every city has to work hard to keep business there and not have it move away" maybe you would not have become so befuddled. If Hamilton wants to attract business, good on 'em, and I wish them luck. I do not understand how we are going to "send" it to them.
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