In the last episode of the year, the table turns: Jim himself joins Irma. In an open conversation, he looks back on decades of living in the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood - the people, the streets, the craziness and the charm that never left him.

But most of all, Jim looks ahead. From his role as chairman of the Nieuwmarktbuurt Foundation, he shares his dream for the coming years: a neighbourhood in which entrepreneurs and residents find each other again, in which initiatives grow, and in which the balance between bustle and liveability returns. Not by grumbling, but by acting together.

A personal yet optimistic year-end about how it was, how it is and what Jim thinks the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood can still become.

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