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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 new banks or gas stations in the last 5 years here.
No new gas stations, but there are enough of them. If anything new EV chargers. Banks are closing.
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.
For a while it was Chase banks specifically. Looks like they maxed out on those. What I see now are car washes, self storage facilities (a seemingly disproportionate number of), and car parts stores.
The only fuel station built near me is a huge electric charging one with a few fuel pumps as an after thought and every bank branch has closed except one
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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