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Unfortunately many shopping centers that build out to the sidewalk will display a blank wall with ventilators and so forth facing the sidewalk, and the real ent
by JJMcJ 7y ago
Unfortunately many shopping centers that build out to the sidewalk will display a blank wall with ventilators and so forth facing the sidewalk, and the real entrances are in the interior, facing the parking.
In one way this makes sense since almost all customers arrive by car but it certainly makes the street visually unappealing.
EDIT: I wrote "arrive by foot", obviously it is arrive by car in suburban locations.
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- jschwartzi 7y agoThis also means that if you arrive on foot you have to walk around to some back alley or something in order to access the building, which defeats the whole purpose of fronting the shop directly on the sidewalk. Or they'll drop or raise the sidewalk in relation to the walk-up entrance and put a railing up making it impossible to access any shops from the sidewalk. As much as developers think they're favoring sidewalks they're really just paying lip service to the idea.
- JJMcJ 7y agoMany centers have no entrances on the street. All of them face inwards to the parking area. Lip service - just fooling the planning departments which sometimes seem to fall for the dumbest ideas.