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Downtown Houston in 1970s was a massive parking lot. It was estimated that nearly 50% of the downtown land area was dedicated solely to parking. (lemmy.today)
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[–] wake@quokk.au 2 points 1 day ago

Up to about 2015, downtown Dallas was like that too. Then a lot of the spaces sold to become mixed use high rises.