I spent an hour this morning....walking around the shopping district of Wiesbaden....from one end, to the other.
By the time you count the main avenue, and the side-streets.....there's about twenty-five business fronts....empty.
Some have actually been empty for almost two years. Most have been empty since early 2022.
Where businesses failed and shut down.....some new business fronts opened up, and several of those failed by mid-summer. I noticed one new shop (opened in the past four weeks)....a tattoo/body piercing shop. To be honest, there's probably not a lot of need for such a shop, but I suspect the rent has gone down enough....that it makes sense.
A bad sign, with 'for rent' signs up? Well....Covid and decreased capitalism really changed the downtown area, and probably reset things for the upcoming decade.
More homeless people laying around? That's one of the odd new features....there's probably over forty folks who lounge in the shopping district now....who weren't there a decade ago.
It is a bold new era, and you have to wonder how things progress over the next decade.
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