[URBAN NOTE] "Is Hamilton Canada's Brooklyn?"

[rfmcdonald]

CBC Hamilton's Adam Carter considers whether or not Hamilton, western anchor of the GTA, is to the Greater Toronto Area what Brooklyn is to New York City. I'd say it might be, maybe, with much much more growth.

Once part of the industrial heart of the U.S., manufacturing in Brooklyn dropped by about half from the 50s to the 90s.

Things were gloomy for quite a while, until neighbourhoods like Williamsburg and Bushwick sprang back to life starting in the late 90s – mostly fuelled by artistic types fleeing high rents in Manhattan.

Sound familiar?

There is a caveat here, though. Brooklyn's revival started much earlier than Hamilton's, so they are way further along in the process. If Hamilton is really lucky, the city could be where Brooklyn is now in about a decade.