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Business travelers eat at restaurants and go drinking. Loads of options all walkable right within Parkside. Plus Target, bowling, movies, etc.
The Courtyard at Parkside is really close to where the Apple campus will be - may be walkable. You theoretically wouldn't even need a rental car.
Alston ridge is like a smaller parkside, restaurant, bar, groceries, bank, gym, pet store, pediatric, etc. business travelers probably don’t have time to play bowling or go to cinema. So it’s enough for them already.
Alston ridge is like a smaller parkside, restaurant, bar, groceries, bank, gym, pet store, pediatric, etc. business travelers probably don’t have time to play bowling or go to cinema. So it’s enough for them already.
I don't even know what Alston Ridge is - I've only heard of the schools. Is that where Whole Foods is?
business travelers probably don’t have time to play bowling or go to cinema. So it’s enough for them already.
You're trying to lump all business travel into the same category. Not all business travel is just one, done, and back home. Before the pandemic we had a range of travel at our company. Some people could be here for days or weeks. It depends on the job function.
I've done business travel and some days after work you just want to go back to your hotel room, unwind, and mentally check out with something that's not work related. I've done both movies and bowling before in situations like that. I think I saw three movies in a row once before as I had nothing else to do one time.
You're trying to lump all business travel into the same category. Not all business travel is just one, done, and back home. Before the pandemic we had a range of travel at our company. Some people could be here for days or weeks. It depends on the job function.
I've done business travel and some days after work you just want to go back to your hotel room, unwind, and mentally check out with something that's not work related. I've done both movies and bowling before in situations like that. I think I saw three movies in a row once before as I had nothing else to do one time.
Exactly. Stay somewhere for even 3-4 days and all the people there at the office have their daily lives to go back to and it gets boring pretty quickly.
Of course there's brand loyalty which is probably what they're going after.
For heavy travelers, getting points/miles with the chain they are tied into is going to trump almost everything else. As long as the hotel itself is decent and there’s options within a short drive, walkability is probably not a game changer for a big chunk of business travelers. They’ve still got a handful of food options at the shopping center. If they are there a few days, driving over to the bowl/cinema place is easy.
Quantity wise yes, quality wise however, Alston’s businesses seem more decent, like
Whole Foods vs HT
Jeffer pediatric vs family care
Pet people vs petco
Penn station sub vs Jersey mike
La farm bakery vs potbelly
Artisan hair vs supercuts
Quantity wise yes, quality wise however, Alston’s businesses seem more decent, like
Whole Foods vs HT
Jeffer pediatric vs family care
Pet people vs petco
Penn station sub vs Jersey mike
La farm bakery vs potbelly
Artisan hair vs supercuts
None of these are places business travelers will go to, except maybe Whole Foods (and La Farm since it's in Whole Foods).
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