Big department stores, restaurants, and news stands.
Malls were the death knell of downtowns, then came the internet which was the death knell of malls.
I know nostalgic and melancholy.
Neiman-Marcus in Dallas is closing.
I stay away from the cities because of the crime and the feeling that law enforcement would more likely arrest me for defending myself than they would be to arrest the young gentleman assaulting me.
Feral Negroes have a lot to do with it.
Thank you, Democrats.
Nothing, and I mean nothing... lasts forever. Including nuclear waste.
Fitting that the author quoted Karl Marx
Public Policy Profs and Urban Planners, are almost by definition, Marxist. They never blame government or central planning, its always the generic bogeyman "capitalism's" fault
Find it sad to listen to songs like her “Downtown” and think how much our lifestyles and culture has changed.
Because of foot traffic in SF from 2 years ago?
Lat time I was in Neumann Marcus - very recently- a saw a shirt for $1,000
Went to Chanel, there was a city cop assigned to the Chanel boutique where everything is locked down. And not a mall cop
Petula Clark is deeply saddened.................
well that is what happens when you get a concentration of a certain demographic... now they are all pushed out into the burbs and the evidence they are here is the colossal amount of road side litter we see every day...
COVID and the dystopian fiasco that came with it was the death knell of downtowns.
The democRAT cities are handing power over to the Minority Urban Youths (MUY) Credit to Matt Bracken (TravisMcgee). Under the marxist vision, “the worse the better” as chaos will cause demand for more government control. It is a scam and you are the loser.
"Education" is not failing in a vacuum.
"Gun Violence" is not a problem in a vacuum.
We have gone from "The Love That Dare Not Say Its Name" to "The Underlying Problem That Dare Not Be Spoken"
High property taxes, utility rates, minimum wage hikes...
Need to figure those in, too...
in the 1960s, Arthur C Clarke predicted this would happen
The SFO Whole Foods had extra burdens, with SFO perhaps being the poster child for how to run a city into the ground.
But due to the other forces in play, such as Amazon, I doubt that inner cities (or the malls) will ever recover to mid/late-20th levels.
I’m in Italy, its cities are thriving, generally.
However, I do see problems like homelessness and begging. It reminds me a lot of Washington, DC in the 1980s.
I gave a Euro to a woman in front of a church yesterday. She obviously was there due to her faith.
Italians are under stress and they pray for God’s help.
They have raised the minimum wage and small businesses can’t stay in business. The new generation doesn’t want to work. Free money from the government. No reason to go to the movies as they are trash and unwatchable. Most shop online now. The streets are unsafe. People don’t socialize because they work remotely.
Of course there are no more downtowns.
Most decent businesses prefer to stay the hell out of “downtown” battlegrounds. They are the hangouts for most feral POS animals.