An article in today's Daily Herald described some of the budget woes of the Centre:

Meanwhile, council members will have to decide how much they would like to pay for programs that will not make money — such as teen and senior services — but are community needs, Folarin said.

I think that the spaces that are reserved for things like ceramics, dance, etc. should be eliminated. We should encourage private studios in the downtown. There should be a nice dance studio on the 2nd floor of one of the historic buildings downtown, and the city should have nothing to do with it. We shouldn't compete with them. The space that is freed up can be converted into a Starbucks... :)

Here's an example of what we need downtown. Let's lure them here.

Read the article.