animatedmartian, downtown malls have mostly been failures. For every Water Tower you can a Columbus City Center. Many of the other malls around Water Tower are not even half full and there are a lot more people living around Michigan Ave than there are living around Woodward in thier respective CBDs.

Canada is better known for having revialized downtowns than the United States is, yet this list of downtowns in Southern Ontario is exhaustive. Remember Trappers Alley failed, the RenCen failed, its a tough nut to crack.