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This week on Ottawa Morning the CBC’s Julie Ireton is taking an in-depth look at Ottawa’s dysfunctional Sparks Street mall, the national tourist attraction that doubles as an echo chamber from October through April.<\/p>\n

In this segment<\/a> she hears ideas on how to revitalize the street; the concepts include a dedicated vintage trolley system, on-street parking, and dropping in an “anchor store”, or maybe even two.<\/p>\n

With ideas to share\u00a0 like Kate Wetherow’s on how to make vacant buildings come to life<\/a> — combined with some pot-shots at the federal bureaucracy — Spacing’s Evan Thornton<\/a> also weighed in on “putting the spark back into Sparks Street”.<\/p>\n

photo by Pierre Tourigny<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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