Rent is a major cost of doing busines, it's common sense to reduce input costs. Smart consumers stopped paying retailers exorbitant rents years ago. Smart retailers moved shop or went completely online and bypassed retail distric rents in favour of industrial warehouse rents years ago.
Another way the Howard & Costello property bubble aided by Krudd and goose neck Gillard and a litany of corrupt and stupid state pollies will eventually hurt this economy.
