Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.

Guadin@k.fe.derate.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The idea of apartments centered around a grocery plaza has been a thing for a while. It's almost an answer, except it still requires transportation to everything else. Plus the stores tend to be higher prices to support the cost of property and because they can.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    apartments centered around a grocery plaza has been a thing for a while

    Do you mean like… a town?

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A town is a bit more than that, but it is how towns typically began, from a central trading place and nearby settlements. Only this is a planned concrete parking lot and established chain along with fully built domiciles, already in a city/town's jurisdiction.

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Only this is a planned concrete parking lot

        That’s where it all falls down. Mandatory parking space kills cities. The point of a centralized commercial area with residential around is that people will walk to it.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Add a metro station, a large parking garage, should work

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That would be a cool place to live to me.

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ITT: people want cyberpunk megabuildings

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