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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Add a metro station, a large parking garage, should work

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