• Ideas—already included in the Gehl recommendations, based on community input,  but not cast in stone—include:
• In the Maudelle Shirek Building, an interactive museum of Berkeley history and culture (based on the existing Berkeley Historical Society) and with flexible meeting spaces, exhibit space, potential office rentals and a café. The City Council could conceivably return to meeting in the original Council Chambers in the building, and the Romare Bearden mural (see below) could go back in place there.
• In the Veterans Memorial Building, an "arts hub" or Center for the Arts with classroom, studio, gallery and performance spaces, making better use of the existing auditorium and offering arts classes for people of all ages.
• Additional, improved performance infrastructure in the park—for large and smaller events
• Other improvements to make the park a more inviting, family-friendly space.*
• Support for critical greening efforts to address the impacts of climate change in the downtown area
• All designed with accessibility for all of Berkeley's people and visitors to the city

More recent ideas not in the Gehl recommendations include:

• Additions to the Veterans Building that will provide seismic buttressing as well as additional usable space, allowing for more preservation of historic building features
• Pollinator gardens in the park
• Continued occupancy of the Maudelle Shirek Building by current tenant Berkeley Community Media, providing valuable services to the City government and the community, especially including teens and young adults.
• A collection of art by Berkeley artists and representations of Berkeley scenes in art
• More public art
• A center for civic engagement
• A visitor information station