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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by brendoelfrendo on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:06PM (#23935287)
Pretty much. Modern mixed-use developments are basically born again shopping malls. We don't have the density for "real" mixed use, so it's just a development project like any other; I'm sure there are real, integrated, mixed-use projects, but the ones I see in small urban/suburban areas are detached from the surrounding area and often detached from public transport, basically to sell overpriced apartments to lifestyle-minded HENRYs.
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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by senkora on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:30PM (#23935423)
Is that really a problem though? I'm imagining a mixed-use development surrounded by many blocks of single family homes and a large parking garage nearby, like a mall, that makes it easy for homeowners to access the development. (I think this is what you mean by born again shopping mall)

I live nearby one such development, and it's awesome (when there isn't a pandemic). There's a great variety of retail because they can rely on both local residents and homeowners who drive in, and it's thriving (when there isn't a pandemic).

More apartments have been built up around the development as it's grown, and while it's very detached from the urban center there is a bus route that connects it and the other apartments throughout the suburb to the light rail system.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by bobthepanda on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:46PM (#23935489)
Mixed use neighborhoods of the past generally offer business diversity and lots of mom-and-pops.

A lot of the new mixed use developments where I live in Seattle are basically malls in how sterile and unvaried the commercial bits are. (New American upscale brunch restaurant? Check. Fad group fitness club? Check. Bank and starbucks? Check.)

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by sparsely on Friday July 24, 2020 @03:21AM (#23936672)
while i agree that there is a trend in that direction, they are still better than the status quo of separated developments.
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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by JamesBarney on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:30AM (#23936050)
What is real mixed use vs fake mixed use?
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