54 JAMES Street N, Hamilton, ON L8R 2K1
Fantastic opportunity in the vibrant core of downtown Hamilton. Located in the heart of the city's bustling restaurant and retail district, this prime ground-floor commercial space offers exceptional visibility and tremendous potential. With strong pedestrian traffic and D2 zoning, the space is ideally suited for food and hospitality uses such as a restaurant, cafe, bakery, bar, or lounge concept. Spanning approximately 1,900 square feet, the unit features a kitchen at the rear and has undergone recent renovations, providing a great foundation for a new or expanding hospitality business. Surrounded by other well-established and successful businesses, including Biggs Ribs and The Market on James, the location benefits from consistent foot traffic and a strong local dining scene. Perfectly positioned directly across from a proposed mixed-use development featuring significant residential and retail components, and adjacent to the prestigious William Thomas Building luxury student residence, this location offers excellent convenience and accessibility.The property is also ideally situated to benefit from the energy and exposure generated by Supercrawl, downtown Hamilton's renowned annual arts and culture festival that attracts more than 275,000 visitors each year. An exceptional opportunity to establish your business in one of downtown Hamilton's most dynamic and growing districts.
- MLS number
- X13213806
- Type
- Commercial Retail
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- —
- Bathrooms
- —
- Postal code
- L8R 2K1
- Photos
- 25
- Property tax
- $52,024 / year
This listing’s own days on market are shown above. How long the property has been for sale across every earlier listing is drawn from records the board releases only to registered users — a free account opens it, along with the sale history below.
Property details
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Property
- Type
- Commercial Retail
- Class
- Commercial
- Community
- Beasley
- Municipality
- Hamilton
- Cross street
- JAMES ST N & REBECCA ST
- Zoning
- D2
Parking
- Driveway spaces
- 1
Land
- Lot
- 68.63 × 158.25 feet
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Radiant
- Cooling
- Partial
- Water
- Municipal
Listing
- MLS number
- X13213806
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-05-29
- Expires
- 2026-10-29
- Taxes
- $52,024 (2026)
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
No previous listings found for this address.
Where this property is
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Schools
The school boundaries this address is inside, and the schools nearest it. Boards redraw boundaries and cap programs — confirm with the board before this affects a decision.
Other schools nearby
By distance from this address, not school boundary — a school 400 m away can be in another school’s attendance area.
| School | Level | Distance | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dundas Valley Montessori School | Elementary | 912 m | Not reported |
| St. Bernadette Catholic Elementary School Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB | Elementary | 1.2 km | / 10 83% met the standard |
| Dundas Central Public School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 1.1 km | / 10 73% met the standard |
| Dundas Valley Secondary School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Secondary | 1.4 km | / 10 72% met the standard · 2 of 6 measures |
| Sir William Osler Elementary School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 1.5 km | / 10 83% met the standard |
| St. Augustine Catholic Elementary School Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB | Elementary | 1.3 km | / 10 77% met the standard |
How the rating is calculated
EQAO — Ontario’s testing agency — publishes, for each school, the percentage of students meeting the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6 reading, writing and mathematics. The rating is the average of those percentages divided by ten. A school where 72% of students met the standard rates 7.2 out of 10.
Nothing is weighted or adjusted, and schools are not ranked against each other. Where EQAO withholds a result to protect the privacy of a small group of students, that measure is left out rather than counted as zero — so a rating built on fewer than six measures says so.
What it does not measure. It is one year of standardised testing in three subjects. It says nothing about teaching, programs, or whether a school suits a particular child, and it tracks neighbourhood household income closely enough that it partly measures the neighbourhood rather than the school. Treat it as one figure among many.
Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–25), Open Government Licence – Ontario.
H-Value
What an H-Value is and how it is calculated — the method and our measured error, no account needed.
This neighbourhood
Statistics Canada 2021 Census, for the surrounding few blocks — about 419 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35250836 — the few blocks around this address, home to 419 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 250 responses in this category. Statistics Canada rounds counts and withholds small ones to keep individuals unidentifiable, so categories with too few people to publish are absent rather than shown as zero.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
