A Hamilton company will be part of a massive energy project announced this morning by the provincial government.

Energy Minister Brad Duguid announced 700 new contracts under the province’s Feed In Tariff program, an expansion he said will create 2,000 jobs across the province.

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An economic boom in Atlantic Canada has created an unending demand for supplies and equipment — and that spells opportunity for Hamilton’s McKeil Marine.

The local company has teamed with Newfoundland-based Hunt’s Transport to ship supplies on a barge across Lake Ontario and through the St. Lawrence Seaway to Newfoundland where they’re loaded onto a ferry to finish their journey to busy mining and offshore drilling projects.

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The Hamilton-based development company led by Jeff Paikin plans to build three, nine-storey buildings on the site of the former Hamilton Thistle Club at Robinson and Park streets site in the historic Durand neighbourhood. New Horizon Homes has partnered with Dundurn Edge Developments, another Hamilton builder on the project, which will be known as City Square Parkside Condominium.

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Welcome to Steeltown, henceforth to be known as Food Truck Town.

This feisty city of 500,000 is poised to welcome two trailblazing food trucks dishing out gourmet cupcakes and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Graeme Smith got a perfect score on the restaurant mockup project when he was studying at Hamilton’s Liaison College. Now he and business partner Scott Austin have their fingers crossed that the success will translate into real life.

Smith’s mockup was a restaurant specializing in the ultimate comfort food — grilled cheese sandwiches. Not your processed slices on bag-o-bread, but the real thing, done to order.

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Natalie Ravoi is looking forward to getting out of bed about 4 o’clock one morning in the next week or so to start baking.

When she gets the final stamp of approval from the city as expected, that will be the day she takes the Cupcake Diner onto Hamilton streets and opens for business. She will offer fresh specialty cupcakes from the city’s first gourmet food truck.

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Hamilton has become a community where Tony the Tiger and the Backyardigans love to live and play.
Two animation companies announced May 12 during the fourth annual Hamilton Economic Summit they were re-locating their growing businesses to the city’s downtown area, highlighting, organizers hope, a rejuvenated lower city community.

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Hamilton’s Ottawa Street North has been named one of the best places in Canada.

The street, known as Hamilton’s textile district, took second place in the first Great Places in Canada contest sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Planners.

Hamilton’s economic re-emergence isn’t on its way … it’s already here, accountant Don Forbes told a packed room at the Hamilton Convention Centre during the Hamilton Economic Summit Thursday.

Forbes, a manager at Grant Thornton, urged delegates to stop talking about the city’s renewal in the future tense because it’s happening now.

“We are already there and it’s being noticed …Downtown Hamilton has good bones. It’s up to us to put the flesh back on it.”

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