[dancusa]

Urban 15.00 dollar an hour minimun wage, will turn what business left in cities into retail deserts.

[VietVet876]

It won't help but there are far more serious causes of retail deserts. Many of those deserts are developing in the suburbs. It seems like with every two or three Sonics and Dunkin Donuts store built at highway intersections, one or more big box mall anchors go dark. When you do the predictive math, there is no way vacant retail square footage doesn't proliferate. And center re-development is hard to finance with dim prospects for absorbing of rehabbed space. Good money reluctant to chase bad.