There are lots of places with apartments on the 2nd floor and businesses on the 1st floor?
Yes. You may not believe it from the incredulous-sounding question as you’ve written it, but ‘mixed-use’ is the standard for new buildings here, for instance.
pedestrian-targeted commercial on main/ground
professional services - lawyers, accountants, physios, clinics, tech - on levels 2-5
potentially hotel or low-income housing on 5-10, depending on need
residential above that,
rooftop patio/common space
Newer buildings here are getting loading bays in the garage: so 5-ton trucks just go into the parkade for a loading dock and a freight elevator. Buildings targeted to ‘market rental’ will often have a loading bay JUST for moving trucks.
The brand new 35fl building in this region may be targeted at new doctors interning at the local teaching hospital: they’re just across the street. Rumours abound about posh SROs with in-suite W/D (perfect for new docs) and a skybridge connecting the pro-serv level to the hospital.
There are lots of places with apartments on the 2nd floor and businesses on the 1st floor?
Yes. You may not believe it from the incredulous-sounding question as you’ve written it, but ‘mixed-use’ is the standard for new buildings here, for instance.
There’s a vast difference between mixed-use being “standard for new buildings” and having “lots of places” (measured relative to the decades upon decades worth of existing housing stock, which is almost entirely Euclidean-zoned and single-family only) be mixed-use.
Yes. You may not believe it from the incredulous-sounding question as you’ve written it, but ‘mixed-use’ is the standard for new buildings here, for instance.
Newer buildings here are getting loading bays in the garage: so 5-ton trucks just go into the parkade for a loading dock and a freight elevator. Buildings targeted to ‘market rental’ will often have a loading bay JUST for moving trucks.
The brand new 35fl building in this region may be targeted at new doctors interning at the local teaching hospital: they’re just across the street. Rumours abound about posh SROs with in-suite W/D (perfect for new docs) and a skybridge connecting the pro-serv level to the hospital.
There’s a vast difference between mixed-use being “standard for new buildings” and having “lots of places” (measured relative to the decades upon decades worth of existing housing stock, which is almost entirely Euclidean-zoned and single-family only) be mixed-use.