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Originally Posted by Chronamut
The only way to bring it back to life is to bring all the stores around it back to life, as actual STORES- get all that derelict crap out of there - make it restaurants and fancy places like king william - I mean a good 1/4 is either boarded up still being worked on or filled with cashmart places.. blech!
Hopefully getting all the people into the core again will help
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And that's been a key driver for the decay -- the market for those stores and restaurants dried up. People living and working downtown has been the only way to instill revival, not the silver bullet ideas politicians love to put out there like new arenas and malls and such.
The decline happened in steps over a couple of decades, at least. Things have come a long way and they seem to be accelerating now that larger residential projects are happening and the urban environment is slowly becoming more people-friendly, but the comeback has always been an incremental process too.