I keep asking myself why this is happening here or if its common. I keep seeing more and more banks and gas stations being built here. Like, why!? We have a shit ton already. You can’t go a block without seeing a gas station. And why the hell do we ned physical banks? 90% of money is fake and digital. It has to be a land grab so they can own everything in the name of “we need banks”.
Market demand. They get built because the capitalists think that people want them to be built. If people don’t want them to be built, they would go out of business and shut down.
But to answer your question, my city is sprawling and growing vertically at the same time. For the new neighborhoods, yeah, gas stations, bank branches and other such businesses do get constructed in the central commercially zoned part.
Where I live there’s this crazy new obsession with car washes. Like, 3 brand new ones being built on the same street. I get that they became way more profitable when they figured out the subscription model thing, but I feel like so many is unsustainable.
Omg, same here!!! A shit ton of em!
Yes. Banks and gas stations.
Also, self-storage facilities and car washes. And churches.
You know what they’re not building? Mixed use, walkable anything.
100%, also storage units. Like wtf is happening
Around me, it’s car washes and storage units. Literally half of all the new commercial construction around me.
No new gas stations, but there are enough of them. If anything new EV chargers. Banks are closing.
My village has a moratorium on new banks and is actually using eminent domain to take over a building from one. I have not seen any new gas stations going up. If you think it’s excessive it’s time to get involved in your municipal government, there are no doubt public hearings on zoning approvals where enough loud voices can stop or slow down overbuilding. That’s what happened here with banks. We have limited real estate and people got fed up.
In my town, the only new businesses are car washes, vape shops, and drive thru coffee franchises.
We had plenty of all three to begin with, but now there’s far more than anyone could ever need.
No new banks or gas stations in the last 5 years here.
My city is building anything but what humans want. Benches, parks, trees are not built
Houston?
Hey now. Houston’s been pretty good about building parks.
Car parks
No. Most banks barely have physical locations anywhere and every single gas station I can think of has been there for as long as I can remember pretty much.
Nope, I think most banks are actually closing some branches in favor of online service.
We build betting shops and fast food places.
Somebody’s paying for it…
Seems deranged, to me…
Simultaneously debanking the politically intolerable WHILE increasing the saturation of a place with banks … doesn’t make any sense.
& the basic rule about “a market can only support a certain amount of a given kind of competition” … means that whomever it is who’s getting loans for building those things, is going to be defaulting on those loans, which will, itself, be bringing-down banks, in your region.
Again, deranged.
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They’ve been closing them down here and replacing them with pizza shops. So many pizza shops.
Dispensaries
High col area means buildings are disappearing and being redeveloped as condos around me.
Gas stations are slowly dying as the land gets too expensive to justify a low traffic gas station, and increasing EV popularity is further shrinking their appeal.
Banks seem to be infiltrating stupid places now, like fucking indoor shopping malls.
There’s nothing like seeing a fucking BANK to make you not interested in visiting an area. If I don’t bank there I will never walk in. If I do bank there I will walk in once or twice a year. Such a shitty use of high visibility retail space.
One wing of my dying mall is entirely banks, dentists, and cell phone stores. Why would anyone want to stroll through that?
