Re:America's “Friendscape” Crisis
by jbay808 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:55PM
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Agreed. I'd love to see more apartment buildings have bakeries, cafes, or other public spaces on the ground floor. Then you can get to know not only your neighbours in your own apartment building, but in shared spaces for the surrounding areas too.
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My apartment (in Germany, not USA) has that. I hope it reopens after the pandemic.
Re:America's “Friendscape” Crisis
by pantalaimon on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:19PM
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That's unfortunately only true for old (100+ years) buildings, most newer developments don't have commercial space in the ground floor.
What are needed are more community spaces.
Parks, YMCAs, basketball courts, cafes, etc.
Anecdotally it feels like it should be more complex than that, as two of the three whose construction I’ve watched to completion since I moved here have ground floor commercial space.
I thought about mixed use (commercial on first, residential above) when I wrote my previous, and left it out, because it seems like a nuanced subject.
In that "Community spaces" is a subset of "businesses an owner leasing commercial space would rent to."
I don't think we're talking about a Subway sandwich shop on the ground floor being helpful.
Re:America's “Friendscape” Crisis
by Ericson2314 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:03PM
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I read in Dublin they built these sorts of appartments but then they got banned.