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Published in July 2022 Rhenish Post an article entitled “What Mönchengladbach can learn from Roermond and Venlo”. The author Carsten Pfarr reports on how the Dutch cities, just half an hour’s drive from Mönchengladbach, are dealing with changing buyer behavior through online trading and the resulting vacancies in their city centers. It’s about the establishment of cultural and gastronomic offerings in shopping streets and the positive consequences for the revitalization of inner cities. The text repeatedly refers to the opportunities that these findings open up for cities on this side of the German-Dutch border that are struggling with the same challenges.