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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
It'd be nice if they kept that entrance motif, I like it.
But yeah, that's too much parking for this location!
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^ From an urban planner's perspective it's too much parking for this location. But that perspective is a bit "one size fits all", narrow in perspective and doesn't take the consumer of the product into account.
There is a reason why apartment buildings get away with so little parking while condos, in Chicago, have to have parking.
They are just two vastly different customers with a whole different approach to the product. And when you are talking about 7 figure condos, lots of times the buyers have more than one car. I am betting that they don't USE their cars that much, which is a good thing. So I would view parking in this context as
storage space for the belongings of a fairly wealthy household.
When viewed as storage space, this parking becomes something very different, and isn't quite so bad.