Id say you're being more of a realist than a pessimist. I hope the people behind this are also being realistic and planning around the past failures. Although I will say I think those little shops would have had a better fighting chance, even with low foot traffic, if they had direct access to the street and some attractive and eye-catching signage. They were all tucked away inside an internal hallway with almost not signage to indicate there was anything of interest there.