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That seems to be the trend in suburbs too - a sort of planned development with single family homes and a denser "main street" area with commercial on the ground
by sybercecurity 4y ago
That seems to be the trend in suburbs too - a sort of planned development with single family homes and a denser "main street" area with commercial on the ground floor and condos or professional offices above. Some have apartment buildings alongside too. Sometimes there is a movie theater, library, or community space mixed in as well.
Most of the commercial space is either restaurants/food or service places like hair salons, dry cleaners, etc. Very little in the way of retail stores. Mostly as the occasional Target/Walmart/etc. big retailer nearby. This seems to be the assumption for single professionals/married without kids demographic: more dining, but buying things is mostly online or big box general retail stores.
- throwthroyaboat 4y agoI value the small amount of retail in my little downtown main street. There is a reasonably sized ace hardware within 5 minutes walk, and I'm there almost every week to pick up lightbulbs, screws, etc. The staff are friendly and helpful. It's so much more convenient than driving to a big box store, finding parking, walking through 20 isles. Sure, it doesn't have whiteware or a lumber yard, but I'll sorely miss it if it ever closes. Same thing with the office supply store. Most tech stuff they have is the same price as amazon, and they offer great printing services.