what are the closest businesses (and other non-residential buildings) to you?

[dead0man]

That elevator you guys have in the Rathaus would NEVER fly here in the US, because there would be lawsuits galore.  lol.  Still fun, though.  I rode it like 5 times.

a Paternoster lift?  I've always wanted to ride one.

[vitoNova]

That elevator you guys have in the Rathaus would NEVER fly here in the US, because there would be lawsuits galore.  lol.  Still fun, though.  I rode it like 5 times.

a Paternoster lift?  I've always wanted to ride one.

*had to Google*

Yeah, that's it.  

It was just a slow-moving elevator without doors and to be honest it wasn't really that exciting or intense.  

It's just that the 2 or 3 times I went TDY to Stuttgart, our hosts who lived/worked there--after our duty day was done and they took us downtown--had the incredible need to show us that elevator like it was the sole highlight of Stuttgart.  Because, ya know, boomers.  (anytime they came around to my neck-of-the-woods in Wiesbaden, the first thing I showed them was the bars and clubs, bro, not some damn elevator)

[MarkD]

I assume that we would not be talking about the leasing office for the apartment complex I live in, nor the office for the next apartment complex immediately north of mine.

There's an agribusiness, with a couple of warehouses, less than a half mile to the southeast of me called Stuckmeyer's Farms (this is just one of a number of branches of this business in the St. Louis area). Just east of that is Braun Family Funeral Home, and then north of them is Immaculate Conception Church and School (I can hear the church's bells going off regularly).

A little bit farther south, across Palmer Rd, is a small brick building with locked metal doors that has no signage, so I don't know who owns it and what purpose it serves. It looks somewhat like a fancy version of a shed for a utility company. But across Ghent Rd from that is a building that houses AeroNavData, a business that assists in aeronautical navigation.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

A Sprouts Farmers Market.

[Del Tachi]

Another New Orleans answer:  an Ethiopian restaurant, sno-ball shoppe, four antique stores, two bridal shops, a French restaurant, a cocktail bar, two custom framing shops, two interior design studios, and a store that sells artisanal olive oil.  And that's all within two blocks!  The closest chains are CVS, Fresh Market, Walgreens, and a bad McDonald's with weird hours but that's now pushing six blocks, lol.

[The Dowager Mod]

There is a CVS 486 ft from my front door.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

For now it's just the areas around campus but that's a boring answer so here's the answer for the apartment I'm moving into in 5-ish weeks.

1) Catholic Student Center
2) Small bar and grill place I've never been to
3) Spanish restaurant that shares a parking lot with #2
4) "Campus Bookstore" which isn't actually affiliated with the university iirc
5) Tire Shop
6) Islamic Society of Mobile
7) Fancy italian restaurant
8 )Campus Wesleyist Foundation
9) Baptist Church
10) Warehouse storage area
11) Strip mall w/ a Pizza hut, nail salon, bar and clothing store

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Moonlight Acres Family Camp
Regnad Computing

I for one enjoyed lethal omen

[Estrella]

- the primary school I went to
- a primary school I didn't go to
- a small traffic park
- a flower shop
- a butcher
- four pubs (a nice one, a small loud one, a big loud one and a trashy af one for alcoholic old men)
- a funeral home
- a used car dealer
- a vet
- a pharmacy
- a small private high school
- a stonemason's shop
- a textile warehouse and store
- a betting shop
- the local office of the Tax Department
- a hundred meters further are a huge water tower, an old folks' home and the local hospital.

All of these are within a five-minute walk, and there are a dozen more small businesses close by run out of private homes - cobbler, notary, lawn mower repairman, daycare and so on. I live in a town of 15,000 or so that's increasingly turning into commuterland of the capital.

[Mr. Smith]

A prison to the North, a corner store to the West, a Church to the East, and Bed & Breakfast to the South.

[Drew]

My apartment building has storefronts on the first floor, which include a boutique clothing store, a waxing salon, and an “alternative medicine” store (which I avoid because the owners are militant antivaxxers).  Across the street is a credit union, a gas station, and  another similar apartment building which includes a dentist office, a nail salon, and a sushi restaurant.  Down the street is a mason and a wine bar.  Other than that, I’m in a downtown area, so there are numerous other restaurants, shops, insurance or investment agencies, and so on.  Also a library, school, and community center easily accessible.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

My old elementary school is like 200m away, but nothing else for at least half a mile. Two 'downtowns' are about equally far apart in distance.

[Schiff for Senate]

A McDonald's.

[Ferguson97]

Next door: The high school.

Across the street: A church.

A few blocks away there is a
-gas station
-7-11
-bank
-CVS
-restaurant
-dentist office
-pizza shop
-the public library
-the police station

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

My small neighbourhood is very residential - there are a couple things like a haidresser and, apparently, a small karate dojo, but in effect most 'businesses' within a five minute walk will be... residential themselves (i.e. bed and breakfasts, guest houses and the like). There used to be a restaurant a bit above me, but then it closed. The only properly non-residential buildings here are a primary school and my parish church.

However, walking downwards one very soon reaches the edges of the city centre where there are all sorts of stores (and the train station)... so many it becomes hard if not meaningless to list them.

[Devout Centrist]

--Local diner
--Taco joint
--Circle K
--Park
--Breakfast place
--Community Residential center
--Medical Center
--McDonalds
--Bridalwear place (ashfat???)
--AMC
--Ramen place
--Coldstone
--Walgreens
--Thai restaurant

[OneJ]

-decent-sized church
-dental office
-couple of home builder's companies
-few restaurants
-few insurance businesses
-several daycares
-Dollar General
-nail salon
-Kroger