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By JayRobb (registered) | Posted April 17, 2014 at 10:40:14

Highly recommend everyone read Reimagining Greenville: Building the Best Downtown in America by journalist John Boyanoski and Mayor Knox White. It's a playbook for downtown renewal.

Public art is one of the strategies for the renewal of Greenville's downtown. Art helps define a personality for downtown and gives pedestrians another reason to keep walking the next block.

Greenville has bronze statues throughout its downtown of local heroes, including Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Nobel Prize winner who created lasers.

All of the statues are privately funded. Donors and friends raise the money. The city finds a prominent place downtown to put up the statues.

Hamilton should adopt this approach and cluster the statues in the core. My shortlist of local heroes to immortalize on our streets would include George Hamilton, Lincoln Alexander, Nora Henderson, Clifton and Frank Sherman and Fraser Mustard. As for artists and musicians, Daniel Lanois and Jackie Washington would be pretty cool.

The Hamilton Gallery of Distinction would have no shortage of worthy candidates.

Fold privately funded statues into a broader strategy for downtown renewal and I suspect there'd be far greater support.

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