Same thing where I am basically.

Our CBD's main hub is basically 2 short streets that are pedestrian only and a central courtyard in front of the main trainstation. The broader city extends out a bit, and incorporates 4 streets, and all the sideways connecting them. They moved half of the trainlines up away from that main area, dropped an ugly as fuck lump of green snot sculpture in front of the main station, and killed the main courtyard. There were a series of malls connecting the two main streets, these were always bustling, with one of them being a massive complex. The others were far more simple, just roads with 10 or so stores. But then the main central one started shutting down, trying to kick out existing tennents to put in 2 big box stores instead. But the contracts didn't allow them too, there were 3 or so holdouts. And so for the longest time the whole thing was dead, just a dead mall you walked through to get to the other one with a couple of holdout stores still there (good on em too, fuck the owners of that mall).

And the whole cbd now smells of piss.

It's somewhere you used to make a trip out of, families would travel down and go to the city centre. There's nothing there to visit now, and it's not safe.

Same thing where I am basically.

Perth CBD's main hub is basically 2 short streets that are pedestrian only and a central courtyard in front of the main trainstation. The broader city extends out a bit, and incorporates 4 streets, and all the sideways connecting them. They moved half of the trainlines up away from that main area, dropped an ugly as fuck lump of green snot sculpture in front of the main station, and killed the main courtyard. There were a series of malls connecting the two main streets, these were always bustling, with one of them being a massive complex. The others were far more simple, just roads with 10 or so stores. But then the main central one started shutting down, trying to kick out existing tennents to put in 2 big box stores instead. But the contracts didn't allow them too, there were 3 or so holdouts. And so for the longest time the whole thing was dead, just a dead mall you walked through to get to the other one with a couple of holdout stores still there (good on em too, fuck the owners of that mall).

And the whole cbd now smells of piss.

It's somewhere you used to make a trip out of, families would travel down and go to the city centre. There's nothing there to visit now, and it's not safe.