Flashback: what was it like moving to the DTM in 1980?

In 1980, local realtor Roger Voisinet published an article in the Daily Progress about his decision to live on the Downtown Mall (not something too many people considered back then) and his hopes for the urban experiment. So, did it become what he imagined it would?

"Yes, the Mall did become what I imagined and in someways better: who would have guessed …