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Are you saying a city can't be made walkable until the entire city is walkable? There is definitely a point in making something walkable that still has to be reached by car. Because after you've reached it by car... It's walkable for the rest of the time you're there. Kind of like malls and strip malls in the suburbs try to emulate.
Its more, I'm uncertain how much housing is already at the location. I feel an important component to a walkable city is housing(apartments, condos, etc).
Oh, that's fair. Typical US cities have two huge problems. The "missing middle", which are those medium density places to live like you mentioned. Also, they've catered the downtowns to businesses instead of to people. As it turns out, the people are the important part of the city. Remote work really exposed that flaw in places like San Francisco.
Yeah, really throughout the US this is an issue of only businesses but no homes n downtowns. My understanding is that some downtown's are not increasing rents or even decreasing them due to the amount of people leaving them spurred by being able to work remotely in cheaper homes.