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.

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.

A bunch of gas stations and car washes. Car culture in my area is out of control. Feels like half the city's land area is dedicated for parking...

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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Around me, it's car washes and storage units. Literally half of all the new commercial construction around me.

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

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. 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.

No new gas stations, but there are enough of them. If anything new EV chargers. Banks are closing.

No. Horrible houses, if you can even call them that. Townhomes on narrow streets. Shared walls and driveways too short to contain the full length of a mid to full size vehicle. Postage stamp yards slightly bigger than an apartment patio or balcony. Over half a million for that pleasure.

The SFH community nearby is already complaining about cracks and other problems in their new houses. And their HOA complaints mostly border on yelling regarding space encroachment by others into their tiny bit of yard and driveways. Scuffs and such.

The majority of new builds I drive past are of that nature. In addition, grocery stores get built. More utility work. Road work. Other businesses closing, mostly restaurants.

Probably says something about the lack of disposable income, restaurants closing and more grocery stores getting built.

My city is building anything but what humans want. Benches, parks, trees are not built

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.

They've been closing them down here and replacing them with pizza shops. So many pizza shops.