Forest Torn Down For Shopping Mall

When I was a kid I would play in the forest a short ride from my home. The forest had a bunch of trails with little playgrounds and treehouse's built throughout the forest. It wasn't a private or owned park, it was just a public area that overtime became something special, with a variety of people contributing to the trail's beauty. It became a place that all the parents of the town would find out about sooner or later, it was something special. In 2012 the acres were sold and torn down to make way for a shopping mall. Anything in the way of construction was trashed and destroyed, and people stopped going on the trails due to the property now being private. By the time I moved away, the mall was complete, and though people still go on some of the deeper trails, it just seemed tainted from what the forest originally was.