Ahhh, got ya. The thing about urban locations though is that people tend to walk and use mass transit rather than drive, so I don’t see parking being a major hurdle (although some parking should exist). If I am living in a loft 3 blocks from the grocery store, I’d probably just walk, or take mass-transit.
It’s sort of a situation where the stars have to align just right. You need jobs, convenient stores, good housing, and good mass transit. Now you need to figure out in what order should you try to generate those things. In my opinion/thoughts: Jobs, housing, retail, mass transit. I think for each item in that list, the item before it is what creates demand. Bring jobs in, and people will want to live close, creating demand for housing. Once people are living nearby, they create the demand for grocery stores, restaurants, pharmacies, bars, etc… Once there are places to go, people start demanding a way to get there, that’s when the buses/subways/taxies come into play.
Following extensive discussion, Kambar agreed to further reduce the number of parking spots planned in front of the building to nine. He also agreed to create more green space or “pedestrian amenities” such as benches, and to install more columns on some exterior walls.
Manuele was the only board member who opposed the project.
But some neighborhood activists think the city should have pushed for even bigger changes to make the proposed supermarket more compatible with the area.
“It’s totally uninspiring,” said Martin Biniasz of the Despensata Corp., a nonprofit neighborhood advocacy group.
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