Bitter Debates: Neil Everson

Neil Everson: The city-owned Airport Employment Growth District AEGD and the privately held Aeropark have the potential to bring 588 hectares of desperately needed land for new factories, offices and warehouses into service after years of bitter debates. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "Bringing this land into service is us thinking five to 10 years out, we're not doing this to solve a problem today," said Neil Everson, the city's director of economic development." Hamilton is hanging its hope for future economic development on two large parcels of farmland surrounding the airport. Some development work has already started on the Aeropark land, held by auto-parts magnate David Braley, while the larger, city-owned AEGD has almost cleared the last of its major planning hurdles an Ontario Municipal Board Hearing early next year to fix the district's final boundaries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.