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Hopefully this trend continues. Every mile of my overcrowded and high COL city dedicates a few square blocks to huge retail outlets - Office Max, Kohl's, Best B
by hiram112 9y ago
Hopefully this trend continues. Every mile of my overcrowded and high COL city dedicates a few square blocks to huge retail outlets - Office Max, Kohl's, Best Buy, etc. Besides the stores themselves, they all include huge parking lots which are often completely empty.
Though I've made purchases from these companies regularly, I probably step inside the physical stores no more than once every six months.
Knock em down, build more smaller residential neighborhoods, and maybe those of us under 40 can begin setting down roots, buying affordable homes, starting families.
- techsupporter 9y agoSeattle has a lot of land-use faults but I actually kind of like the recent "shopping center" trend here. Next to Northgate Mall (a traditional, sprawling, flat mall with huge parking areas) are two multi-story retail buildings. All of the usual chain stores, save Barnes and Noble, are in them. Target, Best Buy, a movie theater, Petco, a sporting goods store, and so on. If we build more like that and less like Northgate or Westwood Village, I'd be happy. (As for actually going into the stores, I do rather often mostly because ordering online has turned into such a mess for me. Having the stores "stacked" like that makes them a lot more convenient to manage.)