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More on "Commercial Density"

A different way of thinking about retail space and efficiency

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Addison Del Mastro
Sep 02, 2021
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I’ve written before about what I like to call “commercial density,” or the efficiency of the use of space within a commercial/retail building. A few months ago for Strong Towns, I wrote about a vacant big-box store in the Fairfax County, Virginia suburbs. I noted that a very similar structure in an urban core might serve as a market with dozens of disti…

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