Driving revenue
It will be great if we explore some ideas that will drive revenue and tourism. I always feel that the old town Queen Street area has not totally reached out its potential. I know there is an initiative of exploring the idea of a pedestrian mall. I wonder whether we can do a few test pilots. Such as in the summer time, closed the downtown for pedestrian only in the weekend and threw a few events...from food truck to music events. Or during the Christmas month, do a Christmas market similar to the one in TO distillery district. Tourists like going to places that have lots of things to do. Parking wise, can the old hospital parking site be re-designed to take on more parkings? Along King Street, Queen Street and some other areas... if the parking can be re-designed so people parking perpendicular to the street, we can increase more parking revenues.