Recently, in July the Westfield Mall, the biggest mall in San Francisco, to give up property to lenders. It had $558 million in outstanding mortgage debt. Read more:

@unusual_whales Agreed. Ours is 70% real vacancy. (Not physical)

@unusual_whales 15 minute cities coming soon?

@unusual_whales LA, downtown is a thriving and questionable tent city

@unusual_whales Downtowns soon !!

@unusual_whales What does this mean lol

@unusual_whales Thank you captain obvious

@unusual_whales @HarmlessYardDog Why would you want to go out where it’s just criminals and drugged out zombies

@unusual_whales Yet, @MayorGallego & @yassaminansari want to turn Phoenix into 15 “individual but connected” downtowns!

@unusual_whales Sprawl ftw!

@unusual_whales Pretty soon @Transamerica you will have to pay me to take the building off your hands. I stand firm with my offer of $650 as my highest and best offer pending final inspection.

@unusual_whales I agree - even a cursory view of downtown Vancouver supports the trend of hollowing out city centres. Rising crime, drugs, homelessness, high rents, and remote work being major contributing causes.

@unusual_whales They died back in the 80s because of shopping malls and suburbia. Although a recent revival to make them residential hangouts for young professionals gained traction, but Gen Z can't afford them so DT are the realms of urban outdoors people then and now.

@unusual_whales Welcome to US

@unusual_whales Well everything is corporate now so

@unusual_whales I live in Louisville and I can agree, downtown is DEAD.

@unusual_whales BLM riots killed downtown

@unusual_whales Right they are...homelessness and crime take over

@unusual_whales 3 reasons 1. People are broke no extra money 2. Streaming services had made people homebodies 3. Downtowns in cities aren’t safe anymore

@unusual_whales I live in downtown Chicago and I can tell you that is not the case.