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Very nice. Reminds me of Winnipeg's Selkirk Avenue.
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Ghetto, can pass for inner-city USA. Crime also seems to be a problem in that area.
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...rton/00086.jpg Projects? |
Nice pictures, that does look like a rather sketchy stretch of street. As gritty as it is though, there is definetly a lot of potential there.
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^^Obviously its a ghost! here's a higher res closeup
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ton/window.jpg @LoKKiTo, I'm not sure but I don't think those are projects. In Ontario "projects" usually take the form of geared to income townhouse complexes rather than highrise apartments. |
Wow, very interesting.
You just don't see this sorta thing in Regina. We have vacant buildings, but nothing to that extent. I would like to get out to Hamilton. |
It's almost as gritty as Sudbury!
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Probably how most people picture Hamilton anyway!:D Good post!
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I thought I saw you yesterday. I passed you on the bus going West at Victoria. You were probably taking a picture of that Caribbean food place. I figured it was you since nobody else in this city would bother to take pictures along Barton ;)
Nice pics by the way, the stuff I see every day. It really doesn't seem so bad in person, but in pictures it looks right up there with Buffalo's nastyness. |
^^It probably was me...there weren't a lot of people out in the damp cloudy weather. I guess this just shows one reason why the design of these old neighbourhoods is good: you always run into people. I even saw my wife and a couple of her co-workers walking down the street on their lunch break.
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Yep and it appears you ran into my aunt as well *embarrassed*
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Very interesting, thanks for the tour!
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Thanks for risking life and limb for us. That was quite an eye opener.
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Wicked Grit. As for the Grit Capital of Canada, it has to be Montreal. There is just soooo much grit in Montreal.
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Crime may or may not be a major problem in the area (I don't know), but Hamilton, like other Canadian cities, has low rates of murder and other violent crimes (I think they average 5-10 murders a year). Most of the crime is property crime and things of that nature.
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petty crimes maybe, but not major crimes.
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I love it....great photos.
Most potential in the city lies on this street. A great streetwall still exists and the foundation is there to work from: Ethnic eateries - I love Duartes, Staropolskie, Frank's Sicilia and many others you photographed here. The biggest problem is really the taxes. Even artists haven't shown up yet in large numbers like you would expect along such a corridor. I know someone who once tried to buy a building here to renovate it into lofts with streetfront commercial. The empty, decayed building paid something like $5,000 a year in taxes. He was told that once his plans were complete he would be paying over $50,000 a year in taxes! And the building was only $200,000 to purchase. Needless to say that idea (along with everyone else's who's tried in this corridor) died. Until the city decides that suburban sprawl will pay it's own way instead of robbing from neighbourhoods like this to subsidize it, we'll never see change. |
Go Hamilton!
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2...rton/00089.jpg An old bank turn into private residence?! What would you do with the old vault... hmmm. You could keep your "product" & revenue there! |
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