[James Bond Agent 007]

With the Power and Light District, downtown is starting to pick up. I've got some more pics (and a video) that will help show that. Will get it all up by the end of the week in my downtown thread.

That said, yes, with the Plaza relatively close to downtown (and even some upscale shopping in Crown Center), that pretty much is going to kill any chance of downtown having any major retail. Downtown's doing a good job lately of attracting residential, but any retail it gets is just going to be a few specialty things and restaurants.