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Originally Posted by miketoronto
Lmich I think the mall is mostly to blame for the decay in downtown, because the rest of the city looks fine, and if you go to the mall its packed.
The only spot that really is on hard times is the downtown so to speak.
Brantford did lose alot of manufacturing and being only an hour from Toronto by train, they really should use that to their advantage.
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The one thing I've noticed in Brantford is that there is little interest from the residents to improve the downtown...most if not all have given up on it....my S-I-L and her family live there and they never go downtown for shopping....the mall on the east side and the mall on King George and the parasitic retail that feeds off the big malls is where people do their shopping (or Hwy 24 in Cambridge or London or the big box stuff in Ancaster). I've yet to see a gentrified neighbourhood in the core..