At Steelport, we have been engaging with local communities, community-based organizations and Indigenous peoples since 2022 to take their input into account and ensure the development serves the needs of the City.
We have a Memorandum of Understanding with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation Business Corporation, and have ongoing dialogue that recognizes their treaty rights and policies. We also continue regular engagement with the Six Nations of the Grand River, through updates and discussions related to development master planning.
Through ongoing engagement, the community emphasized that waterfront access and public space are essential to Steelport, and this commitment has been preserved. We also launched A Healthier Hamilton, a long-term charitable giving programme partnering with local community organizations, having donated over $200K to groups including Hamilton Health Sciences, YMCA, YWCA, the Hamilton Sports Group Foundation, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, Supercrawl, and Mantle.
Steelport’s Community Advisory Committee (CAC) is a non-political advisory forum that brings together community representatives from business and industry organizations, environmental and conservation groups, neighbourhood and community hubs, active transportation and public realm advocates, arts and creative sector organizations, post-secondary institutions, organized labour, community benefit organizations, local residents and Ward 3 & 4 councillors, and relevant City of Hamilton departments (such as planning, public health, transportation, and the film office).
The CAC has met during key milestones and will continue to meet at regular intervals during the ongoing development and operation of Steelport.
Broader public engagement has included:
Slate Asset Management remains committed to sustaining a transparent and collaborative planning process that ensures Steelport delivers lasting benefits for all Hamiltonians.
Steelport embeds industry-leading Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategies and practices in its master plan. This approach enhances value and reduces environmental impact while providing meaningful spaces for tenants, communities, and local workers.
Our ESG priorities include tracking carbon reduction targets, construction waste diversion, workforce equity, innovative mobile solutions, public open space commitments, and transparency, among other elements.
The Q&A covers the plan, the site and the process. If your question is not there, or you would rather speak to someone, the project team reads everything that comes in.
Slate Asset Management is a global investor and manager focused on essential real estate and infrastructure assets. We focus on fundamentals with the objective of creating long-term value for our investors and partners across the real assets space. We are supported by exceptional people and flexible capital, which enable us to originate and execute on a wide range of compelling investment opportunities.
As a Canadian company whose co-founding partners grew up in Burlington with ties to the Hamilton community, Slate acquired the Steelport site in 2022 with an ambition to reimagine the 800 acres of underutilized land into a new hub for jobs, investment, and innovation for the residents of Hamilton.
The Steelport site is situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek. This land is also covered by the Between the Lakes Purchase, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.