The 2022 assessed value of the mall, $98.5 million, is down $115,000,000 since 2015 and down $40,000.000 since 2020.
Oh yes, let us build subways by tunnelling through the granite and then we can have the most expensive subway in the world. Quite soon peninsula Halifax will no longer be the centre of our universe.
I note a significant number of expensive detached homes SE of the Sackville landfill on the western side of Highway 101. As population off the peninsula increases it is just a matter of time before employment becomes closer to where people live.
The cost of subway tunnelling :
https://tunnelingonline.com/why-tunnels-in-the-us-cost-much-more-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world/