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”.
Apartment complexes. Lots of apartment complexes
No, banks are closing braches in Australia all over the plave and moving online and digital. In the nearet big town to me, 2 gas stations have closed but a thrid one was refurbished. Australia is rolling out elecrric cars slowly and they don’t have partisan political support.
Where I live most of the “banks” are just kiosks located inside of grocery stores.
I’m not really seeing a lot of new buildings at all. So many places have gone out of business that they just keep re-using the old ones.
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.
Large cash based business with minimal customer tracking.
They’re the new laundromats.
Omg, same here!!! A shit ton of em!
Around me, it’s car washes and storage units. Literally half of all the new commercial construction around me.
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.
No, but we’re a village of ~11k people spread out over a fairly large area.
No new gas stations, but there are enough of them. If anything new EV chargers. Banks are closing.
A bunch of gas stations and car washes. Car culture in my area is out of control. Feels like half the city’s land area is dedicated for parking…
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
Storage units are great at generating revenue with little labor cost. You can run a giant multi story complex with a single person on site.
People have tons of crap and can’t part with any of it. Somehow they don’t mind paying monthly to store the extra stuff.
Nope, I think most banks are actually closing some branches in favor of online service.
We build betting shops and fast food places.
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.
If there’s a new strip mall or commercial area in my city, it’s a combination of these: mattress store, vape/smoke shop, liquor store, carwash, dentist.
Not here. We mostly get redos. Bigger and shinier hospital, bigger and shinier engineering hall, replace a warehouse with a big and shiny apartment building. It’s crazy. We’ve got people doing drugs and sleeping on the streets, and we spend millions of dollars on a new library renovation.
