Places are starting to think minors are bad for business because they’re more likely to cause disturbances (and often hang around without spending money)
A lot of these businesses are creating curfews for unaccompanied teens after around 2/3pm on Fridays and weekends, banning them on Fridays/weekends altogether, and/or banning them in the afternoon every day of the week (although some of the bans, like at the boardwalk, are after around 8pm). Some are banning them outright.
Another article less Philly centered
"They're being unruly, violating code of conduct, which can include running through the property in large groups, fighting and putting it on TikTok, basically disrupting business and making it uncomfortable for our everyday customers”
Quote from the general manager of the oldest mall in New Jersey
I'm sure western Germany is a lot better than the US too, but my little cousins live in a medium-small town in the former
and are within walking distance of a park with a petting zoo (free), a movie theater, some cool shops, big fields that aren’t trespassing to roam, hiking trails, a mini water park, a train station, and, if you walk on one of the trails in the woods for a few minutes, you’ll find a river with a ferry to the other town (which has a big amusement park and a beautiful castle-turned-museum). Their family has a car but say they don't even use it once a month half the time. Forever jealous of them and loved visiting more than anything when I was a kid, and the whole layout/architecture of the town is super pretty, I guess that’s the advantage of being built centuries before cars
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