55 John Street S, Hamilton, ON L8N 2B9
Newly renovated! Newly updated with HVAC and washroom rough-ins, this exceptional 1,700 sq ft unit commands prime real estate on bustling John Street South, positioned in the vibrant heart of Hamilton's revitalized downtown core. The versatile two-section layout (front and back) enables diverse dual-operation concepts such as a restaurant paired with a full-service bar or retail storefront with complementary back-of-house operations. The property features a full-height, dry basement providing generous storage and operational flexibility. Ideally situated steps from major transit hubs, including the future LRT corridor and the existing downtown Hamilton GO Centre, this location offers exceptional accessibility for customers and employees alike. The immediate surroundings showcase Hamilton's thriving downtown renaissance, with walkable access to eclectic dining, entertainment, cultural attractions, and retail destinations. The D1 Downtown Central Business District zoning supports diverse commercial uses, attracting a steady stream of foot traffic and commuter activity. The space benefits from high-visibility positioning on a major downtown thoroughfare, making it ideal for businesses seeking maximum market exposure. Whether positioned as a full-service restaurant with bar service, a specialty retail operation with support services, or any hybrid concept, this location provides the infrastructure and market positioning for success. Lease to be structured as semi-gross with tenant responsible for separately-metered utilities.
- MLS number
- X13768252
- Type
- Commercial Retail
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- —
- Bathrooms
- —
- Postal code
- L8N 2B9
- Photos
- 17
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Property details
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Property
- Type
- Commercial Retail
- Class
- Commercial
- Community
- Corktown
- Municipality
- Hamilton
- Cross street
- John at Jackson
- Zoning
- D3
Land
- Lot
- 15.79 × 136.75 feet
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Gas Forced Air Open
- Cooling
- No
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sanitary
Listing
- MLS number
- X13768252
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-09-10
- Expires
- 2026-12-31
- Board
- Oakville, Milton & District Real Estate Board
Listing history
No previous listings found for this address.
Where this property is
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Matched to this street. The listing did not say which direction, and every candidate was in the same place.
Schools
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immigrants Working Centre - IWC Academy | Secondary | 248 m | Not reported |
| Dr. J. Edgar Davey Elementary Public School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 538 m | / 10 49% met the standard |
| Brainstorm Academy | Secondary | 585 m | Not reported |
| Queen Victoria Elementary Public School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 829 m | / 10 46% met the standard |
| Central Junior Public School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 675 m | / 10 41% met the standard · 3 of 6 measures |
| St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB | Elementary | 940 m | / 10 64% 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
This neighbourhood
Statistics Canada 2021 Census, for the surrounding few blocks — about 797 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35250468 — the few blocks around this address, home to 797 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 460 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.
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If you rented it out
How this is calculated, and what it leaves out
Canadian fixed-rate mortgages compound semi-annually, not monthly, so the monthly rate here is (1 + rate/2)1/6 − 1. Most calculators use rate ÷ 12, which is the American convention and overstates the payment by tens of dollars a month.
Below 20% down, default insurance is mandatory and is added to the loan rather than paid at closing: 2.80% at 85% loan-to-value, 3.10% at 90%, 4.00% at 95%. It is unavailable at or above $1.5M, which is why 20% is a hard floor there.
Not included: vacancy, property management, capital repairs, income tax, and the fact that a lender qualifies you at a stress-test rate rather than the one you are quoted. This is arithmetic on the numbers above, not a mortgage approval or an opinion of what you can afford.