{"id":34606,"date":"2026-11-10T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=34606"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:21:43","slug":"downtown-london-has-big-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2026\/11\/downtown-london-has-big-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown London Has Big Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Downtown London Business Association is looking ahead to the next four years, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtownlondon.ca\/reports\/\">release of their strategic plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in the plan? How do we make sure it is actually executed? How can the federal, provincial and municipal governments help? And what about those vacant downtown store fronts?<\/p>\n<p>Vicki Smith, the interim executive director of Downtown London joins Craig on the podcast to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Craig Needles Podcast is powered by London Hydro, Downtown London, and the Covent Garden Market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Craig on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NeedlesOnNews\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/craigneedles.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/craigneedlespodcast\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"podbean-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"podbean-shortcode\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=46xat-1bab09c-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=0&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=podcast_page&amp;btn-skin=c73a3a\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the show on your favourite podcast app:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/f6821161-c427-469e-ad54-a9913e45cf3e\/the-craig-needles-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4bcTUq6pZZCFbD7EDdxJpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/News--Politics-Podcasts\/The-Craig-Needles-Podcast-p1560524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/the-craig-needles-podcast\/id1593395773\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-the-craig-needles-podcast-236255548\/\">iHeart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Downtown London Business Association is looking ahead to the next four years, with the release of their strategic plan. What&#8217;s in the plan? How do we make sure it is actually executed? How can the federal, provincial and municipal governments help? And what about those vacant downtown store fronts? Vicki Smith, the interim executive","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":32754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thecraigneedlespodcast"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-19 22:50:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2026\/11\/downtown-london-has-big-plans\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34617,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606\/revisions\/34617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}