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Originally Posted by homebucket
I guess it depends on what your definition of supermarket is.
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To me, a "supermarket" is a large grocery store with a full array of food and housekeeping items, with specialty departments including, at a minimum, fresh produce, a butcher, deli, and bakery (coastal supermarkets also always have a fresh seafood department, but here in the Midwest, those can be hit or miss for obvious reasons).
Outside of NYC, and perhaps a couple other rarified pockets of extreme density in a few other US cities, they are never found without parking in the US.
Anyway, "old city" Milwaukee (the original 50 sq. miles before the city annexed a bunch of suburban land in the '50s) currently has an average density of ~8,500 ppsm. Let's say this upzoning plan is enacted and for some miracle, it really takes off over the next two decades, allowing the "old city" to increase its housing unit count by 50% (which is extremely unlikely btw), we're still only talking about an average density 12,750 ppsm.
The supermarkets are still gonna have parking lots and people will still go to bowling alleys on frozen February nights.
It's
NOT going to transform into fucking Brooklyn.
If anyone doubts this, just check out milwaukee's current densest area, the east side, with 11 contiguous census tracts ranging between 14,000 - 32,000 ppsm. It is served by two supermarkets, a Whole Foods and a Metro Market, both of which have large attached parking structures.