City officials in Hamilton have big plans to redevelop key areas of the city, to help make the city more attractive to a “Hamilton-area workforce,” the Dayton Daily News reports. First, the city plans “to increase efforts to redevelop the Main Street corridor . . . into a hoped-for dining and entertainment district,” according to the article. Next, the city will target the Second Ward and Lindenwald. Hamilton has seen “significant hiring from Barclaycard, Startek (see our August 27, 2015 blog post), ThyssenKrupp Bilstein and ODW Logistics — more than 800 jobs in 2016 alone,” with another 1,000 jobs expected in 2017. City Manager Joshua Smith “plans to propose in the city’s 2017 budget that $3.45 million be given to the city’s non-profit Community Improvement Corporation, which will make a loan to the non-profit redevelopment CORE Fund (Consortium for Ongoing Reinvestment Efforts) to reactivate buildings along Main Street between B and D streets,” the article reports. After the money is paid back in 2018, it would “become seed money for a catalytic fund” for the Second Ward and Lindenwald. For more, read the full article.
Hamilton has big redevelopment plans with 1,000 new jobs coming in 2017
