The ground floor, ideally, is where we can be seen, and see so much. “What do people like? They like to look at other people,” said David Baker, a San Francisco architect, citing a popular ...

Ground-floor space that is not optimized for retail is not going to appeal to tenants, no matter how much they might like the neighborhood or building. This doesn’t have to be the case, however.

Holt saw firsthand that this flexibility is possible while working on a mixed-use project in a smaller San Gabriel Valley city. The city wanted TCC to build ground-floor retail, but in the ...

San Pedro gets another mid-rise, this one with a full-menu cafe on the ground floor and across from the waterfront at 511 S. Harbor Boulevard.

San Pedro gets another mid-rise, this one with a full-menu cafe on the ground floor and across from the waterfront at 511 S. Harbor Boulevard.