The appropriate size of retail shopping center in residental sites has been changed gradually by the circumstance of increasing the rate of automobile ownerships in the residential sites and the number of retail stores near the residental sites. Howev...
The appropriate size of retail shopping center in residental sites has been changed gradually by the circumstance of increasing the rate of automobile ownerships in the residential sites and the number of retail stores near the residental sites. However, there has been no standardized method which estimates the appropriate size of retail shopping center comprising the new circumstance such as consumption amount, business standing and retail shopping centers around the sites. KNHC has been lost the competitive power gradually by depending on the experts deciding the size and location of retail shopping center without considering the rate of consumption of residents, the profit of a merchant, commercial boundary and etc. This research aims to develop the appropriate size and location of retail shopping center in different development circumstances based on the data of retail shopping center size, the types of business, the locations of competitive stores, business standing, the amount of consumption, the commercial boundary, and the survey of residents and merchants in 24 different residental sites around the nation. The data has been collected and analyzed by the size of city, the size of site, the type of developer, the size of shopping center, the size of apartment units, the commercial boundary of shopping center, and the floor area ratio(FAR) of the sites. This research suggests that increasing the size of retail shopping center leads to increase the consumption rate of the shopping center, and the level of business standing increases with decreasing commercial boundary. With increasing the size of city, the business standing is decreased and similar types of business are increased. By the increasing the size of site, the consumption rate has been increased and the satisfaction using of retail shopping center is also increased. For the location of retail shopping center, the residents and merchants have wanted to be built along entrance street as a single building. The size of city and site have influenced to change the appropriate size of retail shopping center so that this research concludes that the desirable size of retail shopping center located in Seoul Metropolitan is 0.76㎡/unit, and the size in large metropolitan area in 0.82 ㎡/unit, and medium size cities is 1.03㎡/unit.