Hey Halifax,
If you had 160 million dollars to finance a revitalization of the downtown core, how would you spend it?
Include ideas, initiatives, organizations, and whatever all else, you would support – and why you think they’re important. We can create a strong strategy incubator, just by putting our thoughts out there, to oppose a lump sum expenditure on one convention centre – with a diverse and comprehensive proposal in its place!
Speak up, Halifax!
How would YOU strengthen the economy, create a sense of community, foster a safe environment?
Email submissions to halifax.ideas@gmail.com and spread the joy – forward this on to your friends and fellow citizens.
Lets collaborate and create a proposal for Halifax that will blow a 160 million dollar bid for a convention centre out of the harbour water! And usher in a new downtown core full of improvements we can feel good about. —Concerned for business owners, not developers
This article appears in Oct 14-20, 2010.
Free school/community centers/skill trading gymnasium
Libraries (not just books but equipments of different sorts: sports, tools, etc)
Streetscape improvements: more public art displays (fountains, statues, installations) better lighting, more garbage receptacles, (more) better signage
and Much more residential development downtown – double the population in the core
More beat cops and “Quality of Life” initiatives like the kind Rudy Guiliani used in NYC.