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Old 08-28-2012, 12:47 PM
 
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I am looking for information on how much auxillary commercial activity a large industrial park can support/generate. The goal is to determine a proper amount of retail space which would be allowed under the industrial zoning (i.e. 10% of space on site may be commercial, etc.) The amount of retail would be limited to that supported by the industrial area itself, even though we know that customers would also come from elsewhere.

Do any of you know of articles or methodologies to estimate this? Thank you.
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Old 08-29-2012, 07:30 PM
 
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Not much, but this is an interesting subject. Some industrial parks have factory outlets or something similar. A related subject is how strictly the city enforces zoning. If it does 50% retail business could a company be cited for a violation?
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Old 08-30-2012, 12:55 PM
 
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Thanks for the response. I am not finding much on this issue, so am trying to devise my own methodologies.

Businesses that do both manufacturing and some retail business at the same site can be a sticky one. I'm not dealing with that on this project, but zoning should take that into account, or it is likely to crop up as a problem at some point down the line when you have an industrial business that has transitioned to retail over time and becomes non-conforming.

Not getting many responses here unfortunately. Seems to be a forum mostly to argue over the suburbs and sprawl
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Old 08-30-2012, 12:59 PM
 
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Not getting many responses here unfortunately. Seems to be a forum mostly to argue over the suburbs and sprawl
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