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16 votes
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No More Concrete Towers - Better Design Please!!
London has a height limitation for new buildings. I'm not sure why we have this. We should encourage builders to build taller buildings and also encourage them to stop building commie block concrete towers. We have so many ugly twin towers made of concrete. Can't we use better design and put some glass in these towers?
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Close Thames Street between York St and King St.
Then the Fork of the Thames park can be expanded.
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Have businesses stay open longer on weekends
Lets have later shopping hours!
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Tear down the old rundown buildings in London east
They want to revamp 'old east' London. They're already a step in the right direction with the senior apartment building that is going to go in where the Centretown Mall once was. But really, do you think an 88-year-old grandma is going to want to live next door to two pawn shops?
The best way to fix that stretch up is to just level everything on Dundas from Adelaide down to at least Lyle Street. - How many junk stores and pawn shops do we really need in London?
Put up new buildings and store fronts to entice businesses that…
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14 votes
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13 votes
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Arts center, including concert hall.
Create an arts center, including a concert hall, as an entertainment hub for Southern Ontario. Make it a downtown destination.
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Tallest Building in Canada
We should combine a new City Hall with a hotel, and office tower and condo project and make Canada's largest skyscraper. We need something to bring in tourists.
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London's First Friday
Other cities have had success with this idea (see Sarnia). All downtown businesses stay open late, the first Friday of the month. This could include, but not be limited to, shops, Covent Garden Market, galleries, library, skating rink (in winter), double-decker bus rides (in summer). LTC buses downtown-bound could offer free rides between the hours of 6-9 p.m. There could be family events held at Victoria Park, or just stations or booths set up by organizations/businesses not located in the core. Musical entertainment at the bandshell, or ask school choirs/bands to perform during the school year. This may bring new…
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creating a City Services Hub
creating a City Services Hub including city hall and Service Canada and ServiceOntario offices to provide Londoners with a one stop shop for government. This will free up buildings in downtown for redevelopment (housing, new businesses etc). As well...grocery store!
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Have businesses stay open longer on weekends
Lets have later shopping hours!
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Make a railline from harris park to springbank park
Use the existing bike path route, their is room for a small gauge railine and the bikepath.
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Turn Old Courthouse into Major Tourist Attraction
London has no real tourist attractions. Anyone that thinks Storybook Gardens is even close to an attraction is wrong. We have a gem of a building at the forks of the Thames. It is currently being used as office space for the County of Middlesex. Such a waste of the current building, which looks like a castle. It could be converted back to an attraction showing it's original use as a jail and courthouse. Put in people who dress from the late 1800's and show how life used to be back then. Ever heard of Alcatraz? It's San Fran's biggest…
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LFP: Stop Focusing on Grocery Store!
Hey London Free Press, you need to stop focusing on a grocery store for downtown. Writing article after article on the need for a grocery store will have zero influence on an actual chain coming to set up shop downtown. Grocery store chains are savvy, competitive businesses. They are all about making money. When they think there is a penny to be made from opening downtown, they will. You need to focus your attention on things our civic politicians can change - not the things they can't. How about an article on what a great public square looks like, light…
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Restaurants and shops are good, and more of them would help, but downtown needs a grocery store!
We need somewhere that supports an everyday, downtown lifestyle. Eating at retaurants and shopping at expensive boutiques is an occassional treat, not an everyday way of life. Grocery stores, hardware stores, lcbo, dollars stores etc are required so downtowners can truly live the downtown lifestyle- ie to live within walking distance to every amenity required to sustain life in the core. If you bring these amenities, more people and families will move back to the core and revitalize it.
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City Hall Makeover
I am a firm believer that there are no original ideas, but got this one and to ME it is original, so I am just going to go with that.
Background:
Joe Fontana wants to build a new City Hall. It will cost (he says) $100 million. The discussions I am seeing involve questions like: Should a new one be built? Should they just fix the old one? Where is the money coming from? (Apparently a great deal of Fontana becoming Mayor is due to his pledge of zero tax increase).
My Brilliant Idea:
It’s not original. It is “stolen”…10 votes -
Pedestrian-only traffic on Dundas and Clarence Streets
There was a traffic study done in London in 1973 that recommended closing Dundas Street between Ridout and Wellington, as well as Clarence Street north of King Street, to all traffic except pedestrians and cyclists. I'd like to see that idea revived. It would allow for a public square at what is now Dundas and Clarence, possibly with gardens and a fountain, and also it can be integrated with Victoria Park. London Transit would run on King and Queens.
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Take out all of the parking meters in the core.
Driving downtown especially in rush hour is ridiculous with all of the installed parking meters making right hand turns almost impossible until a light changes.
9 votes
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