Stec said:
Do we know how many units are in 75 James? I know in King William I believe it's 328 units total between the two towers and podium levels. I'd love to know how many people in total would be living in these when fully occupied. I understand there are a lot of singles but I wonder how many units have 2 or more people living in them per unit. For instance King William could potentially house 700 or more people once averaged out considering some of the 3 bed units may have 5 or 6 people living in them which is the case on my floor alone in 2 units lol. I'd love to know how much 75 James could potentially house once fully occupied as well?
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Over 500 units in King William between the two towers.

75 James is like 600. The unit counts are all in the charts I posted.

I have population projections as well with the average occupancy of 1.7 people per unit in apartments, which is the average in Hamilton.
 
TransportEnthusiast said:
I was curious:
Welland, Ontario (City)≈ 81.16 km²
Ward 2, Hamilton≈ 6.14 km²

That would be 9,771 people per sq km
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Interesting that you used Welland as an example since the population is around 63,000 (2024 estimate). A recent newspaper article stated that for July 2025, the entire Niagara region had 288 housing unit starts (mostly multi-family/apartments) but that Welland was 150 or 52% of the entire region's total.

The growth in Welland is crazy. Stec and myself both grew up in South Niagara and Welland was basically stagnant to slow growth for most of our lives 😆. The North end of Welland is slated to get a Longo's grocery store. That's a sign of how many former GTA folks have moved to Welland.
 
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Wigs said:
Interesting that you used Welland as an example since the population is around 63,000 (2024 estimate). A recent newspaper article stated that for July 2025, the entire Niagara region had 288 housing unit starts (mostly multi-family/apartments) but that Welland was 150 or 52% of the entire region's total.

The growth in Welland is crazy. Stec and myself both grew up in South Niagara and Welland was basically stagnant to slow growth for most of our lives 😆. The North end of Welland is slated to get a Longo's grocery store. That's a sign of how many former GTA folks have moved to Welland.
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Hold on............there's money in Welland now? You should leak that info to a major Toronto newspaper. I can see the headline now!
 
Northern Light said:
Hold on............there's money in Welland now? You should leak that info to a major Toronto newspaper. I can see the headline now!
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The Fonthill / Pelham area on the north side of Welland is seen as an attractive, leafy area connected to the wider Niagara wine country.

Welland itself, the southern half of the urban area, is still the slightly less desirable rustbelt-like area. There has been a lot of growth in that area as well but it's focused more on more affordable ground-related housing options than Fonthill which is where higher end construction is happening.

Empire Homes (of Eau Du Soliel fame in Humber Bay) is the primary developer in Niagara and Haldimand driving a lot of this growth.. They are putting up huge numbers of low-rise housing in the area on formerly industrial and undesirable areas with very attractive sale prices compared to the GTA. You can pick up new detached homes for "$739,000"!
 
Northern Light said:
Hold on............there's money in Welland now? You should leak that info to a major Toronto newspaper. I can see the headline now!
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People can laugh today but during the manufacturing heyday both Hamilton and Welland had some of the highest average incomes in Canada. Do a satellite view of the West and North sides of Welland. The amount of backyard swimming pools is fairly substantial.

The avg home price in Niagara for July was $661,000
Welland - $550,000
Pelham/Fonthill - $862,000
One pays a 30% premium to live in Pelham compared to the rest of Niagara Region.

A quick check of realtor.ca shows ~31 homes in Welland (excluding duplicates) asking between $1 million and $2.7 million. This is wild.

For the wealthier Town of Pelham (pop. 20,000) there's 50+ homes (excl duplicates) asking between $1M and $3.3M, with one asking an absolutely ridiculous $6.75M 😆 (excluding greenhouse properties)
 
I know that there has been a lot of development near the Niagara College campus as well as nearby Port Colbourne which is responding to the cruise ship boom.
 
rdaner said:
I know that there has been a lot of development near the Niagara College campus as well as nearby Port Colbourne which is responding to the cruise ship boom.
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Put my reply to you and Northern Light under spoiler tags, as to not annoy Hamiltonians.😉

Port Colborne has some home construction, but is building subdivisions at a much slower pace than Welland. However there are many subdivisions proposed in the pipeline. The largest one under construction is in the North end here that will fill in the land near West Side Rd/Hwy 58. The residents of the idyllic 1960s subdivision Hawthorne Heights are going to be pissed to have houses crammed in by their backyards 😆:
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In SW Port, an extension of Westwood Estates is happening here, South of Stanley St and East of Cement Rd:
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The 72 unit condo midrise on West St has injected life into the city's oldest retail strip.
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Most buildings on West St. are from the mid-late 19th to early 20th century. The cruise ships have brought extra tourists in, but I'm not sure how long they spend in Port Colborne as most will do side excursions to Niagara Falls or wineries. Port Colborne benefits from the influx of summer cottagers along Lake Erie from Western NY and the GTA.

Port Colborne population growth. A lot of old timers have died off and new families moved in to replace them as new houses have been built.
2004: 19,245
2014: 18,840
2024: 21,830

Welland has subdivisions and infill happening all across the city, not just the North end. Just view a satellite shot and scroll across the city to see the dirt for new subdivisions.

The biggest one is Empire Homes development in the South end (Dain City) on/near the grounds of the former John Deere plant, with the former Welland canal/recreational waterway on the West and current Welland Canal (1970s bypass) on the East. IIRC, around 2,000 housing units will be built when all phases are complete.
My cousin told me they are bussing kids from here into Port Colborne until they build a new school in this subdivision. A lot of young families have bought in this area, primarily from the GTA it seems.

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For Northern Light, here's the Longo's plaza site plan for the North end of Welland on Niagara St at Quaker Rd. It's being developed by plaza REIT.
When the nearby apartments, townhouses and retail is filled this will be one of the busiest locations in the city. They tore down the old Big Lebowski-esque 😁 Bowl-o-Rama for this.

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Welland population growth
2004: 51,480
2014: 52,711
2024: 63,874

Niagara region population growth
2004: 437,364
2014: 450,656
2024: 539,180

Since 2021, the fastest growing municipalities in Niagara by raw numbers:
Niagara Falls +17,378
St. Catharines +16,155
Welland +8,124
Fort Erie +4,044
Thorold + 3,497

On realtor.ca I sorted by housing units listed as built since 2015 (by newest listings for sale) to give you an idea of the stuff from schlock to decent that's being built in Niagara region. If the realtor doesn't enter the built date the homes won't show up in search that's why there's so few showing.
 
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There’s no good thread for it on here, but wanted to leave this observation somewhere.

Downtown was feeling really busy today. Like, a crazy amount of foot traffic around all afternoon and after 5pm. Less cars, as is usual for Friday, but man. It was weird seeing near-full sidewalks in every direction at King and James, and significant foot traffic on every cross-street between there and Ferguson.

It was quite nice. It’s cliche, but it was another moment where the city unmistakably embodies what it means to be one. Despite everything it needs, the core can and does inherently attract.

I have to wonder if it was move-in day for some project. Not this one, I presume?
 
Sunnyside said:
There’s no good thread for it on here, but wanted to leave this observation somewhere.

Downtown was feeling really busy today. Like, a crazy amount of foot traffic around all afternoon and after 5pm. Less cars, as is usual for Friday, but man. It was weird seeing near-full sidewalks in every direction at King and James, and significant foot traffic on every cross-street between there and Ferguson.

It was quite nice. It’s cliche, but it was another moment where the city unmistakably embodies what it means to be one. Despite everything it needs, the core can and does inherently attract.

I have to wonder if it was move-in day for some project. Not this one, I presume?
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That's a great sign for downtown. All these new residents are bringing street life, vitality back to the core and with disposable income to spend. And having the thousands of Mac and Mohawk students back for the new academic year energizes downtown as well.

I believe Stec mentioned that he's noticed more pedestrians, and new businesses pop up in the short time he's lived in Cobalt 👑 King William Urban Rentals. This bodes well for the future of downtown Hamilton.
 
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