Re:The Costco of Housing is Costco? The retailer's plan to u...
by ryandrake on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:47PM
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I wonder if they plan to also build all the infrastructure required to support all these new people living in these new housing. Like expanded electric service, water & sewer, trash pickup, transportation, schools, another fire station. Or are taxpayers going to have to pick up that bill? Build build build is great, we need more housing, but you can't do it without also planning for all the supporting infrastructure.
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by WrongAssumption on Friday June 14, 2024 @11:40PM
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I’m unclear what your concern is. How is this different than any other home builder? Also unclear what you mean by taxpayers being on the hook. More people in housing expands the tax payer base. The new homeowners will literally be paying for these things when they pay their property tax.
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by Arrath on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:37PM
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I wonder what the return policy will be like.
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by m463 on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:55PM
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probably pretty good, but I wouldn't attempt it on saturday afternoon.
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by TMWNN on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:03PM
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I would very, very gladly live in a Costco apartment complex above a Costco store. Being able to buy Costco rotisserie chicken, ribs, and pizza anytime? Sign me up!
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by grepfru_it on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:20PM
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Pentagon city metro is right next to a Costco. Close enough?
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by pkaye on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:11PM
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There is a Trader Joes with a apartment complex above it in Milpitas, CA (in the SF bay area). I've seen that in my city too but it needs to become more common.
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by grahamplace on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:16PM
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The Trader Joe's they just opened in Hayes Valley in SF was put in under existing residential units: https://locations.traderjoes.com/ca/san-francisco/226/
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by seanmcdirmid on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:35PM
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I used to live in an apartment complex with trader Joe in the westwood area of LA near UCLA. Oddly enough, I would walk over to the whole food’s or Ralph’s instead to grocery shop (but everything was walkable, even the target across the street).
The only way to bring house prices down is to build build build.
I'd actually be quite trustful of a Costco apartment.