FOCUS-Homebound 労働者s 注入する life into 郊外の 商店街s after downtowns empty out
By Nichola Saminather and Victoria Waldersee
TORONTO/LISBON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - As the coronavirus pandemic 激怒（する）s and most downtown office 従業員s in many cities work from home at least through year-end, 都市の retailers' loss is turning out to be 郊外の shopping centres' 伸び（る）.
For many years, downtown 商店街s have been more profitable, attracting office-goers and tourists congregating in city centres, while 郊外の 商店街s have been relegated to the 役割 of poor relations.
The coronavirus pandemic is turning that on its 長，率いる. "A lot of people who used to 減刑する／通勤する to downtowns on a daily basis are not anymore," said Tim Sanderson, 長，率いる of Canadian 小売 at real 広い地所 services 会社／堅い JLL in Toronto. "Where are they getting 乾燥した，日照りの きれいにする done, 選ぶing up dinner? ... They're doing it in their 郊外の shopping centre."
Traffic in Canadian 郊外の 商店街s owned by Cadillac Fairview, the 所有物／資産／財産 部隊 of Ontario Teachers' 年金 計画（する）, is now at more than 70% of pre-pandemic levels, while いっそう少なく than half of shoppers have returned to its downtown 商店街s, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 副大統領 of 操作／手術s Sal Ianoco told Reuters.
The same story reverberates around the globe.
In the UK, foot traffic was 負かす／撃墜する 40% and 34.6%, それぞれ, in high streets and shopping centres in 中央の-October compared with a year earlier, while 小売 parks saw a 拒絶する／低下する of only 13.2% from last year, data from analytics 会社／堅い Springboard showed.
While 商店街 owners with both 都市の and 郊外の 場所s are 推定する／予想するd to 天候 the 攻撃する，衝突する from the pandemic, already-beleaguered retailers in downtown shopping centres 直面する much bleaker prospects.
With the 決定的な year-end holiday shopping season ぼんやり現れるing and few shoppers 推定する／予想するd to turn up at downtown 商店街s, the 殺到する in 永久の 蓄える／店 終結s and 破産s already seen this year is likely to より悪くする.
Jaap Tonckens, 長，指導者 財政上の officer of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Europe's largest 所有物／資産／財産 owner , told Reuters the group is "絶対" seeing 地元の 商店街s do better than downtown 相当するものs.
German 商店街 操作者 ECE, which runs nearly 200 shopping centres across Europe, said that while footfall has returned to around 90% of last year's levels in neighbourhood 場所s, city centre 商店街s remain at around two-thirds.
"The coronavirus 危機 is 事実上の／代理 like a 解雇する／砲火／射撃 accelerator to the problems of downtown areas," 含むing 落ちるing rents and rising prices and 労働 costs, German Economy 大臣 Peter Altmaier said last month.
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The return of office staff has been "much slower than we thought," Toronto 市長 John Tory told Reuters, flagging the continued 危険 to downtown 小売 商売／仕事s as 労働者s and tourists stay away as the holidays approach.
"明白に public health has to come first, but anything they can be doing to have people return to work will help the viability of those 商売／仕事s," Tory said.
At lunchtime on a Friday before a long 週末, Cadillac Fairview's 目印 Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto, North America's busiest 商店街 before the pandemic, remained eerily 静かな.
A few shoppers wandered through, but at most 蓄える／店s, staff より数が多いd 顧客s にもかかわらず large 割引s. Its eateries, which had had lines 流出／こぼすing out their doors before the 突発／発生, were 砂漠d.
At Fairview and Yorkdale Shopping Centres in the northern Toronto 郊外 of North York, it was a different story. にもかかわらず 限られた／立憲的な 蓄える／店 capacities, weekday shoppers converged on 蓄える／店s from Apple to Zara to Louis Vuitton.
"Because we're not working in the (downtown Toronto) office ... we just stick around the area that's closer to us," Tamara, who 拒絶する／低下するd to 供給する her last 指名する, told Reuters as she shopped in Yorkdale with her husband.
Within 郊外s, 出口 商店街s and unenclosed shopping 中心s - the former 誘惑するing cost-conscious shoppers in uncertain 経済的な times, and the latter seen as safer まっただ中に the coronavirus 突発／発生 - have fared better t han enclosed ones.
"伝統的に, open-空気／公表する 商店街s, 特に （土地などの）細長い一片 商店街s but even 出口 商店街s, were the poor cousins of big 旗艦 enclosed 商店街s," said Karl Littler, 上級の 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 for public 事件／事情／状勢s at the 小売 会議 of Canada.
"But now, open-空気／公表する 商店街s are doing better than enclosed 商店街s," he said.
Ed Sonshine, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Riocan REIT, Canada's second-largest 所有物／資産／財産 信用, said the company's 郊外の shopping centres - all unenclosed and most 錨，総合司会者d by 必須の 商売／仕事s like grocery 蓄える／店s - are, in many 事例／患者s, doing even better than before the pandemic.
Yorkdale shoppers Tamara and her husband Jason will visit the 商店街 at least once to "see what the mayhem is," they said.
"But if I see a line up and have to wait to get into the 蓄える／店, I'll turn around and go 支援する and buy online," she said. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Nichola Saminather in Toronto and Victoria Waldersee in Lisbon 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles Editing by Denny Thomas and Matthew 吊りくさび)
