Appleton, WI
If I could, I would vote to get rid of the mall. Ever since the mall was built there, it absolutely killed the downtown area. It just feels dead even on the weekend for a midsized city of about 75,000. It's not as fun to walk around anymore in my opinion. Still enjoy walking around Lawrence Univ though. But to be a bit fair, most people really only go downtown for the bars anyways (we were considered the "drunkest city" in the US, after all
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...says/84507936/).
But one of the biggest problems in Appleton and the Heart of the Valley/Fox Cities Area in Wisconsin in general is just how sprawled out everything is. There's more on it in this article
https://www.joe.org/joe/2002december/a6.php