You build housing and commercial stores at time. Have one major transit line into some major city. The stores, you get department stores and the like. Lower re

You build housing and commercial stores at time. Have one major transit line into some major city. The stores, you get department stores and the like. Lower rent than downtown but relatively easy access. Maybe one parking silo for people who come via car. Make it nice. The housing will slowly fill because of the transit line, rent could be much cheaper than downtown. Office developers will at one point just put the offices in the nice area. This is the strategy used by rail companies in the greater Tokyo area since the beginning of time and it works great. Giant shopping centers with good mass transit connections will get a lot of people on weekends (even if it's at the end of a line). Walkable housing nearby. Etc