How to animate the Sparks Street Mall without demolishing or selling off buildings.

1. Create museums in the empty buildings, that will be dedicated to showcasing the history of:
The CBC.
Ottawa musicians - Wayne Rostad, the Family Brown, Bruce Cockburn, Alanis, Bryan Adams.
Historical ballads - "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" by Gordon Lightfoot.
Portraits by Karsh.
Terry Fox
Shania Twain
(work in progress)

Create restaurants that serve exclusively Canadian food.
Reopen the Tourist Information Centre
The CTV Network has archival documents and images from CJOH-TV---Peter Jennings interviewing Mahalia Jackson; Kreskin the Magician; the Galloping Gourmet.
I will donate all of my photos of Princess Diana; Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; foreign dignitaries visiting Parliament Hill; my Ray Munro collection; a tune created by my sister called "A Song for Terry Fox".
In front of the storefronts establish a National Walk of Fame. Encourage musicians, writers, actors, etc. to lend their awards, documents, copies of photographs, etc. to the museums.
The National Film Board probably has hundreds of never-before-seen vignettes and documentaries.
A museum could be devoted to famous animals, either fictional or real, including Winnie the Pooh from White River, Ontario; the groundhog Wiarton Willie; Jack London's dog Buck and wolf-dog White Fang and London from the TV show "The Littlest Hobo."

A plaque that honours Lotta Hitcschmanova at 56 Sparks Street.