The story of downtown shopping malls teaches us something about turnarounds in general. In the 1980s and 1990s, cities tried pumping life into ailing #downtowns by mimicking what had worked in suburbs. Today, these are almost uniformly dead places. What should cities have done? Focus not on liabilities but on downtown strengths, like walkability and transit. https://denverite.com/2025/10/24/city-buying-denver-pavilions-explained/