Main Street Supermarket

The forms of traditional urbanism and the scale at which business is done are inextricably linked

I’ve done a lot of writing here and elsewhere on the subject of small-scale commerce and “trade areas”—basically, the geographic reach of a store. Before I say more I’ll link some pieces that touch on various aspects of this.

Here and here, I wrote about the largely Vietnamese Eden Center strip plaza in Northern Virginia, which boasts well over 100 busin…