Catherine Bell walks through how a 5,000-home development gets organized with commercial pads. A hard corner might hold Circle K, KFC, Taco Bell, and Starbucks. Each pad is 1-2 acres, pre-planned for specific tenants and uses.
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This is a game. So you can see here, 5,000 homes coming soon, drive-through pads available, 1 to 2 acres, 302 units wrapping around the back. This is what they call a hard corner, okay? And it says join Circle K, pads available. So what kind of pads are they talking about? They're talking about having Circle K right here and then a building, a building, a lot, a lot, a building, a building, right? This is what they're proposing in their head. You got Circle K coming in and then Pad B, Pad C, Pad D, Pad E, Lot 6, Lot 7. And if you don't know what a pad is, a planned area development. Development. Okay, like building pad, but planned area development. That's what that's doing. You get your pad done and what you're able to do, where'd you go? So we can— can anybody imagine the things you can put here? Says the square footages of them. So if you look at Lot 2, it says that it's a 3,500 square foot building. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Lot 3, right there, it says it's 2,400 square foot building. Taco Bell. Starbucks. Right, this is a game. This is literally a game you can play. What can we put in the hole?