Another good retail cluster lines Fifth Avenue South.
City Councilman Ed Reyes, whose district includes Dodger Stadium, said the project would surround the ballpark with a ring of greenery, with parks and plazas "almost like a campus setting," so fans could walk from a garage onto a tree-lined walkway leading to an entrance, or to the retail cluster.
The new station takes the form of an undulating green roof built above existing roadways, providing much needed open space around dense retail clusters and transportation networks.
[World Business, Section W.] New Retail Hubs Emerge in Queens Investors are attracted to secondary commercial hubs emerging in sections of Queens that lie outside of more upscale traditional retail clusters.
Density values for stores of the same type that exist within 1 mile of each other are added together to capture the presence of food retail clusters.
The central dispensers of most goods are depāto (department stores), many of which are owned by the companies that also operate the train lines – hence the sprawling retail clusters around the busiest train stations.
Down the block, AvalonBay Communities, a residential real estate investment trust based in Washington, has created a vast complex of luxury rental apartments and retail space clustered around the intersection of Bowery and Houston Street.
There are 26 retail stations clustered in Southern California and the Bay Area, with a couple halfway in between those heavily populated regions in Santa Barbara and Harris Ranch, one in Sacramento and another near Lake Tahoe.
At the Galleria, which has 130 tenants, Mills plans to add a PBS Kids area and cluster retail outlets specializing in children's items like clothing and toys nearby.
"The cluster retail model really works," said the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, who has been looking to spur similar kinds of economic development in his borough because, he said, money spent in locally owned stores has a far greater economic benefit for the surrounding neighborhood than money spent in national chains.
Local officials see a future filled with the realization of colossal construction projects that have already been planned, including a new Tappan Zee Bridge; a tunnel under the Hudson River to Penn Station to relieve New Jersey Transit delays; a Nassau hub retail and entertainment cluster around a revamped Nassau Coliseum; and upgraded sewer plants to remove more nitrogen from Long Island Sound.
