>A 1,200-square-foot store selling food and sundries would need to produce $1,000 a day in sales, he says, to pay market-rate wages and rent. To hit that target, it would need to be within a quarter mile of 1,000 households. “A typical prewar neighborhood has about 500 households with a five-minute walk from the edge to the middle of the neighborhood, so ideally the corner store would be placed between two neighborhoods,” he said. But if a neighborhood can add housing and put more people within that five-minute “pedestrian shed,” it can support more retail. “That’s the big plus about having higher density. More is more.”
Diviancey on
I know this is heavily anecdotal, but when I was visiting DC with my grandpa to see the sites the fact we could just walk from our hotel to restaurants, bars, and corner stores for things was I think what finally made him see how poorly we design our towns and cities. Here in Florida (at least where I live) nothing is within a reasonable walking distance and if it is, there is NO sidewalks or bike lanes to get there. You HAVE to own a car to do anything. If I was able to bike/walk a short distance for my groceries, life would be so much better
Steak_Knight on
Corner stores? Those places next to the spots we’re going to park taco trucks?
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>A 1,200-square-foot store selling food and sundries would need to produce $1,000 a day in sales, he says, to pay market-rate wages and rent. To hit that target, it would need to be within a quarter mile of 1,000 households. “A typical prewar neighborhood has about 500 households with a five-minute walk from the edge to the middle of the neighborhood, so ideally the corner store would be placed between two neighborhoods,” he said. But if a neighborhood can add housing and put more people within that five-minute “pedestrian shed,” it can support more retail. “That’s the big plus about having higher density. More is more.”
I know this is heavily anecdotal, but when I was visiting DC with my grandpa to see the sites the fact we could just walk from our hotel to restaurants, bars, and corner stores for things was I think what finally made him see how poorly we design our towns and cities. Here in Florida (at least where I live) nothing is within a reasonable walking distance and if it is, there is NO sidewalks or bike lanes to get there. You HAVE to own a car to do anything. If I was able to bike/walk a short distance for my groceries, life would be so much better
Corner stores? Those places next to the spots we’re going to park taco trucks?