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People love to visit the Hammer

At least once a month we have friends who love to visit the city. We should have a brewery and restaurant passport.

The number of closed stores and spaces takes away from their experiences please clean up or activate these spaces.

We need secure bike parking and more transit to share, access and explore our city more.

The market needs to be open more often and needs more vendors who are open.

Hamilton the Mecca

Make sure everyone has a homeNurture the already multi-ethnic demographicbenches, benches, benchesoutdoor chess tablesdomes and circles everywherekeep the fountainreplace the Queen Victoria statue with a sculpture commission that's future-embracing in terms of the variety of families that constitute Hamilton, also embracing the gender and sexuality spectrumfoster an ongoing celebration of art presented in the streets that would encourage unique artistry and would welcome those who contribute cash to the artists' pockets. Comedians, poets, specialty acts, dance, drumming in its many ethnic, cultural incarnationsflower merchants art video projections on bare wallsFree hot meal and grocery giveaways (foster the continued effectiveness of…

The Rooftop Manifesto

When I was in high-school, looking around for spots to hang out, the downtown core has been, essentially, a bunch of decorative buildings that don't really do anything. Of course there were shops, and offices, and stores and all sorts of nice places, but none of it really interested a bored teenager. Only one thing kept drawing me and my friends back to James Street to hang out day after day - we loved the Jackson Roof.We could tell by looking at it that it'd seen better days; the closed-off remains of the City Centre Mall looming to the North…