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Hoping to breathe new life into the post-industrial town of Hamilton, Ontario,
councilors recently voted to launch a new economic development office focused
on investing in and marketing brownfield sites.
The office is part of the city’s brownfield incentives program, Environmental Remediation and Site Enhancement
(ERASE), which began in 2005. So far, ERASE has fielded about a dozen
applications in the last 18 months. The two-person department will be headed by
Carolynn Reid, Hamilton’s brownfield coordinator. The second appointee will be named after the budget is
approved. Eighty-thousand dollars in resources would be allocated to promote
the city’s offer.
“This program can be used by the entire city,” says Councilor Brian McHattie, one of two members who lead the initiative.
“This is taking another step in the right direction by declaring brownfields a
strategic priority.”
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