For the average Londoner downtown core the way it is now, it's too scary you feel unsafe. When I shop I want to feel safe and a welcoming envirnment to shop in and Masonvill provides that for me and well as all the quant shop I like, which so originally where in the downtown core and left. Why did they leave because the envirnment was becoming unsafe.

You put OW back to where is originally was at 217 york street at the old post office buliding. The downtown core is scary and unsafe every since "The Bay" left the core and started the domino affect with quant shopps leaving and where did they go? They went to MASONVILL MALL where you are safe shopping, which means no drug deals going on and no pawnshops nor tatoo parlours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Put welfare back to where is was originally at 217 york street by the train station if any one remembers. Also quant shops that where downtown left and went where? Masonvill Mall where no drug deals happen, tatoo parlours are and no pawnshops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Move Ontario Works to be part of the new City Hall. The staff and councilors can meet the people on OW, and some create ideas may happen.

Yes, why are people against the location of OW (perhaps Ontario Works is a misnomer, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than Welfare). If it were to be moved, where? (I like the old Library idea (if the City still owned it), but still say why move it?) I do not see the OW offices as a draw to the activities on the corners. My guess is anyone who HAS to rely on OW wants to get in and out as fast as possible, without being noticed. People will always find a place to gather if they have no options. This time they chose Dundas and Richmond. In my day we strolled "the drag" and hung out in the Wellington Square Mall and Vic Park. But we also had coffee houses, drop-in centers, more training options, hostels, casual labour options.... Times have changed. The poor have fewer options of getting out of the rut and the older they get the more those options diminish.

Where would you put welfare? What is wrong with tattoo parlours?

I agree about the pawn shops. Take a stroll down to 'old east' London, or just simply look it up on Google Streetview. There's about 12 pawn or junk shops just in the one block radius on both sides of the street. The few that are downtown are a little more reputable.

And regarding these cheque cashing businesses, Money Mart down at Dundas & Adelaide is more than enough. Do we really need all these pay day loan and cheque marts around? There's three of them alone all in that one intersection at D&R! I remember channel10 mentioning this on the 6 PM news a few weeks back.

Jack: That point is brought up somewhere else. My thinking is if they can fix City Hall up enough for students, they can fix it up enough for themselves and not spend $100 million. Of course they could go with my City Hall Makeover idea and build all sorts of great buildings, for free. Maybe with that method we could also expand JLC enough for an NHL team? (They say that would hurt the Knights, but could the Knights be an NHL team. :))

If they insist on building a new city hall, why not renovate the current building to accommodate the new Fanshawe campus that they want to put in. I'm sure it would work out well for everyone involved.

Man, I'd sure like to get into City Hall to see how all these "wonderful" decisions are made. I am sure there are trade-offs and "deals with the devil" that we cannot see. It has always been a political stance that the public doesn't really want to know the truth. I guess I am not the average public. Perhaps the old library is the same as the old city hall, not good enough for the present tenants, but good enough for someone else. (City Hall council/students. Old library/Farhi.)

The Ontario Works office, as well as that new muncipal office down near Clarence could have easily gone into the old central library, but no... the previous council saw to it in their never ending genius to sell it to slumlord Farhi.

No wonder this city is in the state that it's in.

These 2 centres are not the problem. The bus line keeps too many people loitering around richmond/dundas

Oh, and would you leave Best's cheque cashing place or would that follow OW?

Why the McDonald's and where do you propose to move the Ontario Works offices? (and at what cost?)