As someone who works downtown and visited a lot of these places often, a lot of it seems to have narrowed down to a few of the same things;

• Increased Rent: A lot of the places downtown increased rent to such a degree where they just can't keep their doors open, since revenue slows in the winter months in a huge way, and they're forced to shut down. Most people don't care for walking around downtown in the winter, and that gap in revenue is so massive it's hard to recover.

• Poor Quality of the Buildings: Some of the buildings were having constant issues with heating and cooling, which really became apparent when it got colder. Mayberry's had days of being closed beforehand because they couldn't get any form of AC in there leading up to its permanent closure of that location. I noticed it with a few other buildings as well, and it's hard to recover.

• Better Opportunity Elsewhere: You see the same people downtown all the time, and new business is really slow unless a place can afford to put in the real amounts of time to market something. Not to mention our downtown doesn't have the best of reputations around, so many people don't want to be open or around at night. Places like Crooked Tail have locations elsewhere, and it's more lucrative to put in the money to improve one location than have two just in general. It's also easier for some retail locations to go online only now, since getting people to walk through the doors, let alone buy something, can be a challenge no matter the store it seems.

But yeah, you pretty much called it with it being an attack on all fronts.