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Originally Posted by myBrain
Glad to see the density on Riverside but it's a huge bummer there's not more retail. I walked through the area this past weekend from the trail and while it's impressive how much construction has taken place (some of it better than your avg 5-over-2) it still feels extremely suburban. Like, there's more life on the streets in my north-central neighborhood than here. Outside of the Buzzmill and Jackalope and a few strip mall joints fronting Riverside, there's just nothing to do here. It blows my mind that developers haven't made better use of the riverfront space, it would be perfect for cafes fronting the park. Instead we get suburban office campuses (Oracle) and first floor apartments in a neighborhood that should be one of our most urban. I guess the redevelopment further east, if it goes through, will bring more life to the area.
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It's weird because many of these new apartment buildings aren't built up to the street. In many places the suburban commercial plats are (for gas stations, single story shopping centers, drive through restaurants, banks, etc) are still dominating the sidewalk frontage.
Eventually someone's going to have to come in and reconcept those separately into something else more dense.