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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Diversified economy responsible for top ranking
Hamilton, ON – May 10, 2011 – Calgary based Real Estate Investment Network of Canada today ranked the City of Hamilton as the top location in which to invest in Ontario (2011-2015). As part of REIN’s extensive assessment of Canada’s top investment locations, Hamilton, along with its top Ontario ranking, was also named #3 in all of Canada.
“Known formerly as a hard-working steel town, the city has quickly shed this image in the eyes of potential investors – as indicated by the record breaking building permit values Hamilton has experienced in recent years,” said REIN President Don Campbell. “The wheels have been set in motion to create a major high-tech industrial park in conjunction with growth at McMaster University, sparking an entrepreneurial spirit in the city.”
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Hamilton has scored the top spot on a new list of the best places to invest in Ontario.
The annual ranking by Toronto-based Real Estate Investment Network also names Hamilton the third-best place in Canada for investment, after Edmonton and Calgary.
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First Ontario, which has more than 83,000 members and $3.2 billion in assets under management, is the largest financial institution headquartered in Hamilton, says Schurman. The downtown branch will bring the number of branches in Hamilton, Halton, Niagara, Haldimand-Norfolk and Oxford to 23.
The branch will open for business May 2, but the grand opening will be postponed until June, when it will be held in conjunction with the Open Streets Hamilton event on Sunday, June 12.
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