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> Also why not just subdivide the vacant space into several stores at the same price per sq ft? Zoning, frontage, accessibility.

• Finnucane 10y ago
  And, at some point, you would make the space too small for some businesses. A restaurant generally needs more space than a hole-in-wall souvenir shop. When I left New York almost ten years ago, there were many blocks where the storefronts were bank--cell phones--Starbucks--bank, over and over again. I suspect this is worse in New York than in other places, because so much money is flowing through the city, but some version of this is probably playing out in every city.