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Originally Posted by Beedok
It's only a small portion of of Hamilton's water front. I'd say it adds to the city far more than some more landscaped water areas. Few things have a more urban appearance than heavy industry.
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The Stelco/USS "peninsula" measures about 2km from Burlington St. to the harbour, and is more than 1.8km wide.
Once USS is done, depending on whether they can find buyers for some of that property who wish to use it as-is, that's a pretty big area to remediate and re-purpose (and it's a lot of waterfront)
With the port authority seeking to expand non-steel shipping, they do have an interest in trying to make productive use of that land sooner rather than later... but that may mean their initial focus will be on the portions along the piers and shoreline, and just that part is going to be a huge undertaking and cost.
It will definitely require lots of provincial and federal help.