In the final episode of the year, the tables are turned: Jim himself joins Irma. In an open conversation in Amsterdam House of Arts & Crafts he looks back on decades of life in the Nieuwmarkt district — the people, the narrow streets, the madness and the charm that have never let him go.
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.