06-29-2020, 04:24 PM
The pandemic is one reason why the downtown is so quiet at the moment. What is also true - and someone pointed it out - is that we're a region of over 600'000 people, but we have 3 downtown cores. Aside from that, what the downtown is really lacking is retail and things to do. There are very few interesting shops and even fewer things like art galleries, cinemas, music venues and so on.