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I can understand his practical concerns ("Those glass boxes won’t have a Dan’s Belltown Grocery, a little pizza joint; you’ll miss out on the divey bars, the dr
by PhasmaFelis 9y ago
I can understand his practical concerns ("Those glass boxes won’t have a Dan’s Belltown Grocery, a little pizza joint; you’ll miss out on the divey bars, the dress sellers"), and I agree, but people need affordable housing first. Charming neighborhood businesses are awesome and I hope there's a way to preserve them, but if only the rich can afford to live near those businesses, it's just another kind of elitism.
- njarboe 9y agoI think this could be possible in the glass boxes if they had many small spaces of retail on the ground floor or two and sold them to business owners (like condos). I wish they would do that in Oakland. I like increased density and we need the housing, but it is a bit sad to see 20 individual lots get eaten up by huge condo projects. Even sadder to see the new construction go up in smoke though.
- gizmo686 9y ago>Those glass boxes won’t have a Dan’s Belltown Grocery, a little pizza joint; you’ll miss out on the divey bars, the dress sellers" Why shouldn't they? There is no reason you can't give the ground floor to bussinesses, and have living units upstairs.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoI don't know the market forces involved, but I would expect fancy high-rises to have mostly major chains in their retail slots, not local businesses.