> It will also result in housing that looks like a stack of shipping containers.<p>This is an either temporally or willfully ignorant statement - prefabricated housing hasn’t had to look like a boring box in decades. I’ve been involved in prefab projects where you couldn’t tell the on-site builds from the prefabs.<p>Also there’s an elevation rendering of the project that clearly isn’t ’a stack of shipping containers’.
I'm continuously impressed by Costco. Not only is it one of my favorite places to shop, but I also recently recent to the Acquired episode on Costco[0] and was super impressed by how they run their business. They've continuously been able to align their unique advantages to reenforce each other and make their advantages even stronger. I highly recommend this episode to everyone.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco" rel="nofollow">https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco</a>
Any housing that can be built is good housing for places that have a severe supply-side constraint of housing.<p>The only way to bring house prices down is to build build build.<p>I'd actually be quite trustful of a Costco apartment.
I like what I know of Costco, as a service, and as a company. But that architectural rendering, of the cool housing straddling the no-frills Costco big box, reminded me of Idiocracy's "Welcome to Costco; I love you".<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdNmOOq6T8Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdNmOOq6T8Y</a>
As a former (well, still card holding) union laborer I have to express my displeasure at Costco circumventing the prevailing wage requirements by building modular sections offsite and trucking them in. Other than that, I like the mixed use approach to this building.
I like Costco but I feel that living next to it wouldn't be significantly better than living a bit farther away. It's a place where people with larger homes can buy in bulk and save time and money by storing those bulk items in their homes. There is no good reason to go to Costco more frequently than you can use up those bulk items, or until they expire. Gas and pharmacy would be borderline.<p>I live within walking distance of a nice grocery store and would definitely prefer that over a Costco. There are more hot food items than just a hot dog and two types of pizza. It's easy to pick up a small amount of fresh ingredients to make a meal at the last minute.
Costco is great but their parking lots are awful. I hope the housing has a separate parking entrance because fighting Costco shoppers every time I leave home sounds like a nightmare.
So a standard mixed-used development but with certifications of how wonderful and eco-friendly they are allows throwing out most regulations everyone else has to follow, creating a preferential, tiered system. That sounds fair and respectful of community interests. /s
Will Costco be collecting rent? The mental gymnastics are impressive. It’s not a good thing that Costco gets to expand to housing. This is just like private equity and 401k’s buying houses. People should be able to own their own housing not become lifelong renters.