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But the whole business model of the mall is not viable without the parking lot, so I think it makes sense to include the parking lot in the analysis.
by bostonvaulter2 6y ago
But the whole business model of the mall is not viable without the parking lot, so I think it makes sense to include the parking lot in the analysis.
- prepend 6y agoYes, that is true. I’m not contending that parking lots aren’t required for malls to work. I just think it’s comparing different densities of commercial areas. It doesn’t factor in the parking lots needed to support the 9 blocks of downtown. So the level of spatial resolution seems off to make an accurate comparison. It seems to me the point was “downtown shopping is better for tax base than malls” and shows the tax for those two areas. But my not including the parking needed for downtown those aren’t really comparable areas in that there is additional space needed to support the downtown area. But the bigger area is comparing downtown to whatever land was turned into a mall since I’m not aware of any malls that were literally used to replace town squares. In the small to middle towns I’m familiar with the mall was built away from the center of town frequently on farmland or similar empty space.