Hang-outs are mostly concentrated in a street that was recently made a pedestrian mall and filled up with bars on each side.
Beginning in the late 1990s, the pedestrian mall became noted for hosting a growing presence of at-risk and homeless youth.
It is now a pedestrian mall and closed to vehicular traffic.
The concept of a pedestrian mall originated in 1965 as part of a central city redevelopment study.
It became a pedestrian mall as part of the heritage tram loop in 1995.
Efforts to revitalize the downtown were made in the 1970s with the construction of a pedestrian mall and a ten thousand-seat multipurpose arena.
It features an attractive pedestrian mall of inlaid brick and well-designed seating areas.
It was replaced not with a slow road however but with a renovated pedestrian mall.
