Originally Posted by
UniChris
That's not actually the issue. Many major stores have some housing nearby; it's just not where most of the housing is being built, because it's not where the land to build on is available.
Mixed use development is very much a trendy thing. But most of the housing is elsewhere.
The problem isn't a failure to build more stores near the housing, it's that the housing is too far flung from anything that matters.
That's not the mentality. But the housing isn't being built within 3-4 blocks of the bakeries; more like several miles.
Right. I wonder why. Or why don't businesses build on that same "available land?" Oh right... Zoning.
Mixed use may NOW be trending. But it wasn't before when most everything you see today WAS built... In support of car dependent mentality.