Urban core is much closer with changes in higher density.If most of the centers are only 50% occupied and rents are stagnant then you have an oversupply situation especially if centers are older.

Many of them don't have the core business fundamentals it takes to survive.

Most of the core of which has not changed in a while.  

Or, maybe if my core skill was negotiation and I could close killer deals everywhere I went.But, for normal people starting out with aspirations to become a skilled and "successful" REI (whatever that means), we need education.  

Welcome to the BP community.Suggest you complete your profile, upload face pix and ask a single question.Frame your question to both attract readers and compel useful responses.

Commercial land prices run about 5% of the Seattle urban core. 

Who is compelled to help to help someone who can't seem to frame his query well and tells his would-be responders that he already knows the answer? 

However, a self-sustaining core economy must be the foundation of which tourism is built upon.Finally, the tax revenue collected by the city has made it possible for the city council to guide the progress of The Dalles for the better.

I don't mean to be disrespectful, however if you carry your 'I know for a fact' attitude into the bank, you have probably not compelled the right people to want to help you.Since people want to do budiness with people they know and like, if you are an unknown quantity from an unknown source, you're just another smart person who knows the language of money. 

I've done the opposite in the past and I am still paying for it.I know you've probably heard all this before and it's not really an answer but sometimes we just need to be reminded of the core values.