Dots are now not only in Pioneer Courthouse Square but in numerous other downtown locations. The dots, each privately sponsored by a donor, bring to mind an earlier time when downtown was struggling.

Shane Smithers in front of his Parramatta Square mural.(Background Briefing: Brendan Esposito)"We didn't have dots, we had lines," he explains, gesturing at the 30-metre mural in Parramatta Square.