No drug dealers = druggies go elsewhere
No druggies/dealers = people move back to the area
People move back to the area + no druggies/dealers = businesses move back to the area
No druggies/dealers = people move back to the area
People move back to the area + no druggies/dealers = businesses move back to the area
It feels just like there are so many more simple narratives here. Like seriously, there's a supermarket that looks larger and has a parking lot just there! Why would people bother crossing a 4-lane highway to go to whole foods? And so you're left with a huge supermarket that is trying to cater purely to foot traffic, outside of a place with that much of it to begin with. It sure feels like hubris meant this site simply did not work.
It just feels like such a stretch to claim that crime is the thing here.