Abandoned!?

You may or may not have run into this problem of having abandoned buildings. If you have, you will want to try to solve this problem as soon as possible. If you click the question mark at the bottom and click the abandoned building it may help to shed some light on why the building is abandoned. It will say one of two things (at the top of the window that pops up).

Number 1:
It will tell you that the building was abandoned because of commute time.

Number 2:
It will tell you that the building was abandoned because of low demand.

If the building was abandoned for its commute time then there are a number of ways to solve that. Just see this article on Decreasing that Annoying Commute Time! If you decrease the commute time, sims will want to come to your city more which helps your city to grow and run effectively.

Now if the building was abandoned due to low demand, you don't have to worry as much. Those buildings are abandoned because the desire for them is just low at the time. Since the people will desire different kinds of buildings at different times, you can't really do much about it. If you really want to keep that building, there is something that you can do. (I wouldn't recommend it) but you can lower taxes on that particular area of buildings. This would increase the demand for it, but at the same time it would lower the money that your taking in. Another way that you could do this is to activate some city ordinances that would increase the demand for that kind of RCI (Residential, commercial, or industrial) zone. For instance, let's say a bunch of commercial buildings are being abandeoned because of low demand. You could activate the tourism promotion act ordinance. This would increase the demand for your commercial buildings.