Lot's of empty store-fronts now in NYC Brooklyn, Queens etc. As I understand it the greed motivator is such that you can take a business write -off for 'the rent you're NOT getting' and it goes well for developers and such to keep store-fronts empty & rents high. They suffer not at all, while the common person looses their job or their local store etc. So it's basically corporate greed making this world into a black hole. A bicycle store or record shop book store or anything duplicatable on-line is really just low-hanging fruit.
Though if you need a bank or a HUGE pharmacy there is one every where. Banks 'hold the note' on the building they occupy, so they don't pay rent and the big chain stores are just crunching numbers somewhere.
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