Turning Old Strip Malls Into Housing and Old Parking Lots Into Parks
source: http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/17/local/me-11639
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No longer are they vibrant centers of suburban commerce. Instead, they often are homes to 99-cent shops and low-rent liquor stores. Their signs are decaying, their sidewalks cracked.
Hundreds of these aging mid-size strip centers sit on prime real estate throughout the region, underutilized and bound for blight.
...Orange County is projected to grow in the next 20 years by 600,000 residents...
...State projections show that sometime between 2010 and 2025, there will be no more vacant land to build on in Orange and Los Angeles counties...
Solution: Convert those strip centers into little villages where homes would be nestled among the stores, with parking stacked above, so those vast, unattractive paved lots could be put to much better use, maybe even as pocket parks.
(yeah it's an article from '01, but it's a good idea.)
Hundreds of these aging mid-size strip centers sit on prime real estate throughout the region, underutilized and bound for blight.
...Orange County is projected to grow in the next 20 years by 600,000 residents...
...State projections show that sometime between 2010 and 2025, there will be no more vacant land to build on in Orange and Los Angeles counties...
Solution: Convert those strip centers into little villages where homes would be nestled among the stores, with parking stacked above, so those vast, unattractive paved lots could be put to much better use, maybe even as pocket parks.
(yeah it's an article from '01, but it's a good idea.)
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bedeboop
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It is a good idea, many of the strip malls, once empty, sit and become eyesores....would be great to do something useful with them, I agree.
- 3 years ago
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