Our Future Downtown: Hamilton’s 10-Year Downtown Revitalization Strategy
The City’s 10-Year Downtown Revitalization Strategy aims to shape a shared vision for Hamilton's downtown core over the next 10 years, reflecting the aspirations of residents, visitors, businesses, and partners.
Why is a vibrant downtown core essential for Hamilton?
- A vibrant downtown attracts businesses, creates jobs, and boosts local economy, tourism, and real estate development.
- Arts, events, and entertainment foster a strong sense of community.
- Improved access to transportation and urban development, support a greener, more connected downtown.
- A thriving core enhances public spaces, promotes community safety, and overall quality of life.
Project Updates
Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on the 10-Year Downtown Revitalization Strategy. The comments and feedback we’ve heard from the community and stakeholders has been invaluable in helping us understand the challenges, needs, wants and ambitions for our Downtown.
July 9, 2025, City staff and the project consultants presented an interim update report at the General Issues Committee. This report provided a high-level overview of the comments and feedback from the public and stakeholders as well as key insights and observations from the project consultants about the current state of Downtown. Read the report and watch Committee's discussion.
Additionally, City staff have completed a detailed review and analysis of all comments, surveys, ideas and stories submitted through the Engage Hamilton project page between April 2 and June 30, 2025. In total, more than 250 individuals contributed. The feedback will be used to inform the development of the vision, guiding principles and priority actions in the strategy. Read the Our Future Downtown Summary Engagement Report
City staff and the project consultants have started Phase 2 of the project, engaging with internal City Departments and key external stakeholders. This second phase will develop the draft priority actions for the City and its partners over the next 10 years. Additional engagement was anticipated to start in September but now is occurring in early November on the draft vision, guiding principles and priority actions. On-going project updates and engagement opportunities will continue to be posted on this page and www.hamilton.ca/OurFutureDowntown.
December 3, 2025, Draft strategy presented at GIC. Interested parties can Request to Speak at GIC.
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Notice of Collection The City of Hamilton collects information under authority of Section 227 of the Municipal Act, 2001. Any personal information collected for Our Future Downtown: 10-Year Downtown Revitalization Strategy will be used to understand the different perspectives of Downtown that exist within the community. Information collected for this initiative may be stored on servers located in Canada and the United States and may be subject to Canadian and/or American laws. Questions about the collection of this personal information can be directed to the Senior Business Development Consultant, Economic Development Division, City of Hamilton, 71 Main Street West, 7th Floor, Hamilton, ON, L8P 4Y5, phil.caldwell@hamilton.ca, 905-546-2424 ext. 2359
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How Hamilton failed the 2001 Can. Law Enforcement Games
I hosted the 25th Anniversary of The Canadian Law Enforcement Games in Hamilton. The games were organized by the Ontario Law Enforcement Athletic Association and I was a Board member.
I fought our Board for 4 years to get the games in Hamilton. They had been in Ottawa for 23 years and Guelph for 1 year and this was our anniversary.
The games were open to any Canadian police agency, and included the Canadian Border Services Association, Paramedics and firefighters. We would normally have 1000-1500 competitors for 25+ events. The events were scheduled for various sport venues in Hamilton, Burlington,... Continue reading
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