In 2021, after years of dismal attendance and three federal corruption trials, the arena was seized by the Federal Government and converted into a HelioBus parking garage and rail yard. What little remained of the surrounding neighborhoods also suffered, declining dramatically after middle class tax payers moved away in droves due to a combination of factors: overdcrowding, increased pollution, blackouts, nightmarish traffic, crime, after the collapse of the water and sewer infrastructure in 2016, the year after the arena opened.