It's usually heavily frowned upon to setup a local shop in Michigan like that, and sometimes illegal. Retail creates undesirable traffic and crime (at least, t

It's usually heavily frowned upon to setup a local shop in Michigan like that, and sometimes illegal. Retail creates undesirable traffic and crime (at least, that's their common assumption). The suburbs fight hard to keep that as far away from residential areas as possible. Sometimes they push this to the logical extreme conclusion -- zoning commercial spaces almost exclusively at the edge of their limits. Here's examples of the actual zoning permitted in Kentwood and Grandville, (suburbs of Grand Rapids, Michigan). http://www.ci.kentwood.mi.us/CityOfKentwood/media/files/original-files/planning/Maps/Zoning-Map-%2824x24-in-color%29-Oct2014.pdf http://www.ci.kentwood.mi.us/CityOfKentwood/media/files/orig... http://www.cityofgrandville.com/images/pdf/Zoning%20Map%20April%202010.pdf http://www.cityofgrandville.com/images/pdf/Zoning%20Map%20Ap... On both maps, you'll see almost all of the red (commercial) areas are near various edge boundaries, and there's little-to-no commercial activity allowed near any central neighborhood(s).