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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
We can walk or cart to Magnolia plaza, so we tend to go shopping on off hours or during dinner time, after dinner, to avoid the rush. .
finding parking sports is indicative of the balance between too many grocery stores being too close together that each doesn't become profitable (sales cannabalization of each others' stores) and the developer building small parking lots. I have see architects in other scenarios also grossly underestimate parking requirements. . . like toilet requirements at work, there were several hundred people on the floor, and two johns and one urinal for the mens' room. . . some stupid arcane formula which doesn't nearly work well when you have to go, usually all at the same time.
For the above reason, the developer wants to start commercial with enough demand that the store owner doesn't go bankrupt waiting for the house sales and occupancy. . I am sure on that one the developer and the retailer are in agreement on behind closed doors.
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No doubt there.
I'm not sure they foresaw the numbers of Wildwood/Middleton customers shopping there.
Not a complaint, good to see some diversity, just an observation.