It’s all fun and games when taxpayers fund your mall under the guise of a “transit hub” but not so fun when, even with those subsidies, you still can’t make it work.
I have family that lives in a nice part of Pasadena. The city fought tooth and nail against a “transit hub” that would connect the s hole parts of Los Angeles to the shopping mall. It just wasn’t fair “teens” had to rob their own stores in their own neighborhoods.