There are so many reasons this place is a failure, even though I am so so thankful for the existence (though not the idiotic design and planning) of the AMC 24 here.  Full of 2nd-rate restaurants and trinket shops, it just doesn't have much draw.  (Sam's Cafe is really the only restaurant here that I go to much.)\n\nRather than putting the theater (blank walls) in the center with the shops and restaurants around it to create a vibrant urban space, they killed the street-facing ability of much of this block by turning it outside-in and into a little suburban \"enter me and leave the city\" area.   You combine that with the concept of 2nd floor retail (again a suburban mall concept), and this place is a complete failure.  Notice nothing exists on the 2nd floor.  Even if it had 3x the foot-traffic nothing could survive up there, because no one would ever see anything on a 2nd floor in-passing on their way to something else and thereby never \"discover\" it.  Whoever conceived and built this \"Center\" should be tarred, feathered, and forced to live in Anthem.\n\nActually, judging by the design, they probably do live in Anthem.