Comments on: Employment near Hamilton Int’l Airport. Are you interested?

By: steve

steve — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:25:07 +0000

I find it incredible the Federal Government is putting up trial balloons for Pickering. For far less money they could run a High Speed rail from Niagara Falls through Munro and on to Union or even Pickering. There is an opportunity to specialize in A380 flights. No matter how you run the numbers the only thing that adds up for a Pickering Airport is that it is a chum deal.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.com/2011/07/crazy-airport-scheming.html

By: RMcCord

RMcCord — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:55:19 +0000

Good afternoon Mr. Bandow.

Thank you for your inquiry. The AEGD is a city led initiative and consequently we are not privy to specific information regarding land use or land ownership. The best source of information would be to either contact the city or visit there website.

I have attached the link to the cities main AEGD page for your convenience:

http://www.hamilton.ca/CityDepartments/PlanningEcDev/Divisions/IndustrialParksAirportDevelopment/AirportEmploymentGrowthDistrict/

The environmental and heritage components were completed in 2008, during the first phase of the AEGD analysis.

Below is the link to the environmental and Heritage finding and recommendations:

http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/FF85CD36-27A7-405E-A3C5-A3AF1F3B6825/0/Jun23PED08149PW08075.pdf

Rob McCord

Marketing and Communications Coordinator

By: James B Bandow

James B Bandow — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:23:42 +0000

Dear Rob,

Are you aware at this time of any land being purchased for this development project? Has all environmental and heritage components been completed on the subject properties?

By: RMcCord

RMcCord — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:15:33 +0000

Hello Judi,

Thank you for your post. As you may be aware the decision to move ahead and continue assessing the Airport Economic Growth District (AEGD) was passed by Hamilton City Council on June 24th 2010. This is an important step in the process of finalizing a plan for the land surrounding the airport which we feel is integral to the future of Hamilton. It will offer prospective organizations an attractive location for business looking for multi modal transportation and access to the largest Southern Ontario catchment area.

There will now be a period of public consultation before City Council makes an approval decision in October 2010. We hope at that point to be actively promoting the benefits of locating businesses in Hamilton near the airport. If passed, adoption of the infrastructure proposal will likely take 2 more years before development gets underway.

The AEGD is a priority in the City’s GRIDS initiative. It is vital that Hamiltonians recognize the potential of AEGD on Hamilton’s economy in terms future job creation & prosperity. Furthermore, it is important that we collectively tackle each AEGD hurdle as quickly as possible. Other communities in Southern Ontario are aggressively attracting business to their communities and we have to be careful that we do not lose out to them.

Rob McCord
Marketing and Communications Coordinator

By: Judi Baldwin

Judi Baldwin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:52:47 +0000

hello, I just came upon this while job searching hamilton airport…as someone who is looking to change my career field…I think its fantastic…its hard to find dencent work these days….and something like this could be fantastic….but my question to you “Is when?”