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solar power, and exterior products that enhance resiliency.
Are you interested in They are also looking for lifestyle-enabled floorplans. They
aren’t interested in formal living or dining rooms that are only
installing heat pump used a few times each year (but need to be heated, cleaned
and maintained constantly). Rather, they’re looking for well-
technology in your home? organized spaces that can accommodate remote working,
schooling, and home fitness. (Pre-COVID-19, only about
10 percent to 15 percent of homes had dedicated office space.
1,800
Hot topic. Now, that number is closer to 75 percent.)
1,600 A recent Green
Builder Media CARS BE GONE
1,400
survey shows Beyond the homes themselves, the very design of the 20th century
ormation 1,000 93 percent of have you ever seen a strip mall parking lot fully occupied?),
1,200
that nearly
suburbs is outdated, with their sweeping, wasteful spaces (when
early adopter
garage-dominated architecture, and ecological wastelands.
800
homeowners are
The suburbs of old, when they were new, were so dependent on
600
interested in heat
cars that often there were multiple times more parking spaces per
400
for their homes.
Today, the average U.S. household owns 1.97 cars. Some
200 pump technology household in a community than vehicles per household.
CREDIT: GREEN BUILDER MEDIA older suburbs in Des Moines, Iowa have 19 parking spaces per
0
household, and some in Jackson, Wyoming have 27 parking
YES NO
spaces per household.
With the continued growth of ride sharing, e-bikes and other
alternative transportation solutions, the number of vehicles per
household is decreasing. This decline in car ownership offers a
tremendous opportunity for innovative developers to transform
Suburban
gridlock. Today’s
suburbs are
packed with cars,
something that’s
on the way out as
people shift
toward ride
sharing, e-bikes
and other
alternative
transportation
solutions.
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