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History &

Context

These lands helped power Canada's industrial economy through steelmaking, manufacturing, and industrial innovation.

Steelport represents the next chapter of that story, transforming the now vacant land into a generational hub for jobs, advanced and clean manufacturing, and digital infrastructure.

For over a century this stretch of Hamilton's waterfront powered the Steel Capital of Canada, and what was made here built the country.

At its peak, tens of thousands of steelworkers passed through the gates of this site every week. The north end of the city grew up around the plant, and generations of families measured their working lives in shifts on this land.

As the industry changed and operations scaled back, most of these eight hundred acres went quiet: fenced, undeveloped, and remained cut off from the city around them. The furnaces stopped. However, the rail, the deep water port, the power, and the skills did not go anywhere.

History & Context

Steelport will host the next generation of high growth manufacturing, technology and culture: thousands of workers and visitors from hundreds of startups, industrial enterprises and creative industries, with the amenities to support them.

Map of Hamilton: Steelport on the harbour with its road, rail and marine access, ten numbered places

Hamilton

Road, rail, and marine access to the site

  1. 1West Harbour GO
  2. 2Hamilton GO Centre
  3. 3City Hall
  4. 4Hamilton Stadium
  5. 5Pier 8
  6. 6Bayfront Park
  7. 7Burlington Canal
  8. 8Burlington Skyway
  9. 9Aldershot GO
  10. 10McMaster University
  • Road access: QEW, Highway 403, Burlington Street
  • Rail: CN mainline and the Stelco line
  • Marine: Deep Water Port on Hamilton Harbour, via the Burlington Canal
Map of eastern North America: road, rail and marine corridors from Steelport, Hamilton, to the cities of the Great Lakes, the St Lawrence and the American northeast

Eastern North America

Road, rail and marine corridors from the site

  • Highway corridors: QEW, 401, 403 and the Interstates
  • Rail corridors: CN and CP mainlines
  • Marine: the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence Seaway

Project Timeline

  1. Current aerial drone view of Steelport lands

    June 2022. Slate Asset Management acquires the Steelport lands

  2. Rendering of what Steelport could look like, as viewed from Hamilton Harbour

    May 2023. Slate Asset Management introduces Steelport and unveils preliminary development plans

  3. Steelport press event

    October 2023. Slate affirms commitment to Hamilton with event celebrating Steelport

  4. Aerial rendering of proposed Steelport plan of subdivision

    February 2024. Slate submits application for a Draft Plan of Subdivision for Steelport to the City of Hamilton

  5. Notetaker at in-person advisory committee meeting

    April 2024. Steelport’s first Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting is convened

  6. Community members attending Steelport’s open house on June 24, 2024

    June 2024. Slate hosts Steelport’s first Community Open House

  7. Community meeting members listening to project team presentation

    October 2024. Community Advisory Committee Meeting 2 was convened

  8. Artist’s rendering of Steelport’s Lagoonscape

    February 2025. Slate completes resubmission of Draft Plan of Subdivision for Steelport

  9. Aerial view of the Steelport lands and shoreline

    March 2025. Community Advisory Committee Meeting 3 was convened alongside a tour of the property

  10. Over the shoulder shot of a project team member attending a virtual advisory committee meeting

    April 2025. Community Advisory Committee Meeting 4 was convened

  11. Community members learning about Steelport at Open Streets on King on June 22, 2025

    June 2025. Slate hosts first informational pop-up at Open Streets on King

  12. Stacks on the Steelport lands

    April 2026. Community Advisory Committee Meeting 5 was convened

  13. Aerial rendering of the Steelport plan of subdivision

    May 2026. Land Severance Application submitted to advance the first phase of construction

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Slate Asset Management

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.

Land acknowledgement

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.