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Clearly using very expensive real estate to sell products and services to consumers is passe. That's not quite the same thing.

People are buying mostly the same stuff, just not in-person from downtown shops.

Too many cars and parking downtown. If we had outdoor seating with European style restaurants, I think we could safely distance and downtown would be booming. Check out Chestnut st. Almost every restaurant has a parklet now and it's packed.