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Originally Posted by SteelTown
If you wanna increase the retail space and still keep the number of parking space perhaps you ought to join the big boxes together instead of having independent boxes that waste land (parking space).
Oh wait! I think that's called "traditional malls" nowadays lol.
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hahaha That's exactly it!! If you look at any big box development (plans or existing one w/ Google Maps Sat Imaging), you can easily point out where they are wasting space.
I like the idea of village-type shopping centres, but hate how the 'village' is usually an island in the middle of a sea of parking.
I was at Walden Galleria in Buffalo last week, and noticed they're turning their parking lot into one of these 'villages' eliminating parking and replacing surface lots with parking garages.
Neat to see... especially in a stagnant city like Buffalo.