well i used to work up at the mall for a store which has since closed and i know all the inside dirt as to why nobody wants to bring any new business industry or stores here i can't get into the specific details that's an entirely different topic but i can tell you that the entire mall has been a money loser for several years now cambridge shopping centers has placed it up for sale time and time again nobody wants it and i don't blame them if sears ever decides to pull out of there they might as shut the entire place down and bulldoze it because the land is worth more than the mall itself everything is going northside anyway downtown chatham has been a cesspool ever since the recession of the 's and it never fully recovered and the capitol theatre give me a break they might as well give up on that too it's been what over ten years now and after all the time and money that was pissed away on that thing we stil aren't any closer to it being finished or having a final completion date as far as chatham as a city goes i have never seen so many unsavoury shady people in my life not everyone is like that i agree but yes it would seem as though chatham does qualify as the welfare capitol on ontario drugs unwed mothers crackheads dropouts second and third generation welfare families a plethora of health problems and well you get the pitcure is it any wonder why the younger crowd is leaving in droves i can't say that i blame them the grass is greener on the other side chatham's prime was over a long time ago it's london and points east that you want to be