On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:19:48PM -0400, John Sessoms scripsit: > In Raleigh, one of the first malls built in NC, North Hills Mall was > demolished all except for the JC Penney's store, and a new shopping > center was built on the old mall's footprint. It's one of those > pseudo-downtown designs, but they're carrying it off successfully so > far. > > The developer is building residential mid-rise condos and apartments > with shops on the ground floors in the area to try to make it all > slightly denser and more "walkable", but he's sooner or later going to > come up against the problem that he's got one of the city of Raleigh's > major automotive high traffic thoroughfares splitting the middle of > his project.
Commuter Light Rail down the middle of the traffic thoroughfare and pedestrian bridges will handle that nicely. The US has a ridiculous amount of retail square feet per person; it's over twenty, with a third of it being added in the last fifteen years. This was probably not an economically sustainable situation in the general case. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
