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# Q-Line asks whether ground-floor businesses in mixed-use projects serve neighborhoods
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/good-service/
- Published: 2008-08-19T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:44:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Downtown, #archive-import

Mixed-use development with businesses located on the ground floor has become all the rage in Santa Monica, Downtown especially.

So this week’s Q-Line question asks: Do you consider this a good thing? Are these businesses truly neighborhood serving?

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in the weekend edition of the Daily Press. Please limit responses to a minute or less.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 19, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081908.pdf?ref=smdp.com)