Civic: Includes municipal buildings, firehouses, police stations, libraries, post offices, or any other government office.
Cultural: Includes entertainment activities, such as art galleries, performing arts centers, historic theaters, as well as religious institutions.
Construction: Active construction sites, even where the intended end use was known.
Institutional: Includes institutions of higher or continuing education.
Office: Includes professional office space from both the public and non-profit sectors. Offices above ground floor retail may not have been captured if the use could not be verified.
Residential: Includes single-family and multifamily housing units. Residential units above ground-floor retail may not have been captured if the use could not be verified.
Vacant: Unoccupied buildings or storefronts.
Retail Types:
Experiential (EXP): Experiential retail is a relatively new trend within the retail industry that includes uses such as axe throwing, pottery making, and painting with wine. Given the relatively recent rise in experiential retail, this type was not contained in the 2013 inventory.
Food and Beverage (F&B): Includes sit-down restaurants, take-away food, cafes, bars, coffee shops, sandwich shops, ice cream shops, fast food restaurants, and similar types of tenants.
General Merchandise, Apparel, Furnishings, and Other (GAFO): Includes clothing stores, furniture stores, discount stores, bookstores, jewelry stores, gift shops, pet supply stores, home decor stores, music stores, sporting goods stores, craft stores, mattress stores, electronics stores, auto parts stores, hardware stores, and similar types of tenants.
Hospitality (HOSP): Includes bed and breakfasts, hotels, inns, motels, and other similar types of lodging. Restaurants and bars associated with a hospitality use would have been captured separately in the F&B retail type. Hospitality uses were not treated as a separate retail type in the 2013 inventory.
Neighborhood Goods and Services (NG&S): Includes grocery stores, convenience stores, drugstores, florists, gyms, bakeries, delicatessens, butchers, dry cleaners, yoga studios, salons, tailors, laundromats, spas, liquor stores, shoe repair, and similar types of tenants.