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”.
That last sentence is worryingly close to conspiracy theory territory. There is no unified ‘They’ controlling what gets built in your town. Different places have different reasons for different things to be built. If you are seeing gas stations, it’s because someone with access to money, or pseudo-money in the form of debt, thinks they can make more money by building a gas station.
Chain A coming up directly across from Chain B might be one company trying to take over the area from the other. It could be Chain A management stupidly thinking 'we made $1,000,000 from our station at 5th and B, so if we open another at 6th and C it will also make $1,000,000. It could be upper management telling them to spin up more locations so they can go into next quarters investor meetings and say ‘Pay no attention to the debt on our balance sheet. Pay attention to the fact we just built 1000 new locations! We’re expanding! Please value our stock higher!’ It could even just be money laundering, criminals paying themselves $2 for every $1 of construction they do and then running the business pretending to sell gas for $8/gal. The one thing you can be assured of is, absolutely no one is sincerely saying ‘People need more banks and gas stations.’ The kind of person/organisation that spins up a dozen gas stations does not care what people/society need(s), only what they can do to convince people to give them more money.Apartment complexes. Lots of apartment complexes
Yes…I’m not sure who is moving into them!
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.
I wonder how many of these are built for drug running or money laundering?
100%, also storage units. Like wtf is happening
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.
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.
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.
No new banks or gas stations in the last 5 years here.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Omg, same here!!! A shit ton of em!
Large cash based business with minimal customer tracking.
They’re the new laundromats.
They’ve been closing them down here and replacing them with pizza shops. So many pizza shops.
Where is this wondrous land you speak of
Dispensaries
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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Car washes and tire shops.
For us it’s car washes and Mexican restaurants. So many Mexican restaurants in a town of only 40k people.
High col area means buildings are disappearing and being redeveloped as condos around me.
Gas stations are slowly dying as the land gets too expensive to justify a low traffic gas station, and increasing EV popularity is further shrinking their appeal.
Banks seem to be infiltrating stupid places now, like fucking indoor shopping malls.
There’s nothing like seeing a fucking BANK to make you not interested in visiting an area. If I don’t bank there I will never walk in. If I do bank there I will walk in once or twice a year. Such a shitty use of high visibility retail space.
One wing of my dying mall is entirely banks, dentists, and cell phone stores. Why would anyone want to stroll through that?
