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Originally Posted by mishko27
My only issue is the lack of retail on the street that will connect the light rail station with the mall and the "main street". Retail right by the station would make perfect sense, there needs to be a 7/11 and some fast-casual dining there, rather than ground level apartments with patios. If being walkable is the goal, it makes no sense to put private residences on what will arguably be the busiest pedestrian street.
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I can think of nothing to ruin the value of an enormous investment better than a 7/11 facing public transit stop! No offense, but down there the action is on the mall side. I suspect they'll probably try to do something like what they have on the south side of the mall and eventually add a retail village as well, likely with more residential on top of it. Mall parking lots will all fairly soon be parking garages with residential and retail wrapping them for the municipalities that allow the zoning. For those that don't, they'll have dead malls for decades!