It's really, really tough to pay the overheads that you have to pay here and be viable with the volume of sales that you have. That’s a broad generalization, yes, but if you talk to normal people and ask why they don’t come downtown, they may not come downtown period because of the threat of it. Shawnette McNeil, former mall manager: Everybody is going to use that as an excuse, but that has not changed. But I don’t think it’s dangerous or anything like that. (Walter Strong/CBC)Brian Bastable, property manager with Slate Asset Management, owner of the lower mall: We have no say in what the upper mall does … We’re just focusing on our mall.

Source: CBC News December 02, 2019 15:22 UTC