'Huge, generational project' planned for Stelco lands will give east-enders waterfront access: developer
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The massive property stretches from around Sherman Avenue North to Ottawa Avenue North, and north from Burlington Street to the Hamilton Harbour. The area is three times larger than Hamilton's official downtown core, according to Steven Dejonckheere, senior vice-president at Slate and the project lead for the development, known as Steelport.
"It really is city-building," he said, describing the scale of the project, which will be clearly visible from the Burlington Skyway Bridge.
Stelco will continue to use part of the property. According to a report Slate submitted to the City of Hamilton planning department in February, "Stelco's current operations consist of a single remaining coke battery scheduled to be decommissioned in the next few years and the cold-rolled steel mill which is intended to remain for the foreseeable future."
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An area between eight and 16 hectares of the site is targeted for active remediation from contamination left by the mill, he added, while saying the rest passes the bar for new commercial and industrial development.
The report Slate submitted to the city in February was a draft plan of subdivision, which lays out the location of future roads and city blocks – the "overarching master plan," as Dejonckheere described it. "We're not designing buildings, just figuring out where the buildings will go" at this phase, he said.
"In an ideal world," the city will conditionally approve those plans later this year and construction will start in 2025, he said, adding it will take about eight to 10 years to build out the roads and blocks before the next phase of the project begins.
The city told CBC Hamilton it received the draft plan earlier this spring, planning staff reviewed it and the application for the project was "deemed complete" on June 6. "A statutory public meeting will be scheduled in the coming months to ensure community members have an opportunity to share their feedback on the plans," Anita Fabac, acting director of planning and chief planner, wrote in an email.