Grocery parking ratios shrinking

More grocery stores are adapting their business for urban sites. In San Francisco a Whole Foods took on responsibility to abate any parking problems that might occur with their parking garage at their new Mission Dolores store. Read the full article here. The project by the Prado Group will also bring 82 apartments atop the store. At CityVista, according to this ULI article, “parking was reduced 40 percent versus a conventional suburban store, and the ratio is just 2.9 spaces per 1,000 square feet of store space.” (You can see more about CityVista profiled here at ThinkMixedUse last fall)