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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown
But this is not a side street such as West 73rd through West 78th, West 80th through West 85th, West 87th through West 95th, etc. It's a larger intersection with the potential to be like West 79th and Amsterdam which has a lot of retail below its residential. You guys can make all the arguments you want in favor of ground level lack of retail... that's your choice. But once buildings are built like that, there's no going back and adding the retail. Glad my 18 years in New York City and 7 in Boston could provide the experience that allows me to be part of the entertainment for you. If this forum were boring you wouldn't want to visit.
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This is flat out wrong, because:
1. This building already does have retail on the most prominent corner.
2. You CAN go back and renovate the existing ground floor residential units to be retail if need be when demand for it rises with population density.
3. I currently live in Chicago, on a major thoroughfare that has ZERO street level retail within 10 blocks of me in the urban core. Every single building is residential only, in a much more densely populated area than ANYWHERE in San Antonio.