welcome back company towns ππππ
iirc it's to get around planning laws that reduce scrutiny on planning permission as long as X% of space is used as a residential estate.
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"I wish America would get modern mixed-use residential/commercial developments."
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i dunno about anywhere else in the country but here in the bay area you can't find parking in a costco parking lot any time other than when they first open or are about 2 minutes from closing.. good luck spending an hour trying to park after getting home from work
Solution⦠get a job at the Costco below your apartment.
Based. 1.50 hotdogs every morning for breakfast lunch and djnner.
(I die of massive organ failure 2 weeks in)
Bowel obstruction from Hell due to all that minced hog
Woah there! They use Hebrew National! It's 100% beef!
Imagine the plumbing systems of these places π
BRAAAAAAAAPPPPP
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You load 16 carts and what do you get?
Another day older and a deeper in debt
St. Peter don't you call me 'cuz I can't go
I owe my soul to my local CostCo
I can't believe that Costco has fallen in the hands of the woke communist cabal and are now trying to sneakily introduce 15 minutes cities. This is a threat to all carbrained treatlers all across America
having a Costco cafeteria just downstairs is a death sentence for my arteries
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Lmao just do communism wtf is this
America is just going break it's back contorting capitalism to Communism, trust me bro
America is just going break it's back
Murikkka is collapsing, and you get to live to see it. A nation that never owned up to its pseudo feudalism is trying to turn back the clock just the right amount to give the big bourgeois scum more time to oppress the rest of us.
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I have very mixed feelings about this, and I'm seeing that Costco is actually just renting warehouse space from some apartment company that built apartments with a warehouse underneath, and not building and operating the apartments themselves like I thought it would
Also this one in particular demolished a community hospital and replaced it, apparently
Cool cool cool This gonna be baaaad
And put a metro line below next
Putting apartments on top of big box stores seems like a perfectly fine thing to do wherever the stores are in urban or more populated areas. The only real problem here beyond the usual landlord-parasitism is if these start being handed out to Costco employees tied to their employment status (and even then if you're working retail your living situation is probably fucked when you lose your job anyway, so I'm not sure it even exasperates that problem all that much in hellworld).
I mean this is pretty normal already in urban areas. I have friends in NYC who live above malls that have Targets, BJs, etc. It's just a normal apartment building on the top floors and retail/malls on the bottom.
this is normal in literally every country besides the united states
No what I'm saying is this is normal even in the United States, just only in the non-terminally carbrained areas
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You've heard of "Work from Home" β now introducing "Live at Work"
now introducing "Live at Work"
google had a much funnier version of this with their company sleeping pods
lol looking back at that moment in time when all the tech workers were coaxed into full time daycare labor centers.
Bet they don't even have ball pits and nerf wars anymore.
Before covid, I worked in a couple offices that had stuff like that (ping pong tables, foosball, gaming consoles, etc) and they were 95% used by the sales and marketing bros.
Engineers were always so busy we'd get judged and told to go back to work if we used them 
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cant afford, dont care
I hate that I'm saying this, but it might actually be useful to have companies do this and have housing as part of a compensation package to exert some downward pressure on rent.
Realistically I know it will be terrible but I can see how it could be beneficial in our current framework/situation
You hate that you're saying it because you know that in actual fact having your landlord, HOA and your boss all be the same fucken capitalist pig is bad.
You're saying it because there's a gushing artery and we don't get to be picky about the quality of bandage in a crisis.
Show up late to work more than 2 times = eviction. It is terrible, indeed.
"Oh you're calling out because you're sick? We'll send someone up to make sure. It's in the contract you signed for the apartment."
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Hear me out though, I would trust costco as a landlord.
βIf you increase the rent, I will kill youβ - the Costco CEO, probably.
critical support to murderous rent control CEO
I'd rather have this than the giant single-story warehouses. I'm a big fan of mixed-use.
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