This was a choice. Liberals talk about how they want to have lively walkable downtowns where people can live near their work and then they turn loose swarms of meth zombies to destroy all the businesses in the very neighborhoods they say they want to revitalize.
The Democrats settled 100,000 Somalis in Minneapolis and instead of the Somalis becoming Minnesotans, they turned Minneapolis into Mogadishu, complete with Mogadishu clan wars in the streets and Mogadishu property values.
The Royal Sonestas in Portland and Minneapolis have sold at over 90% discounts. Neither downtown really came back after COVID and riots, and both cities have high property crime and understaffed police departments.