• retail and service
• one or two levels
• no standards of parking
• no standard form of signage
• maintains street edge
• single entry per store, most on street level, with a metal frame glass door
• display windows
• mostly flat roofs (one hipped)
• many have awnings, continuous over the first floor, over openings on the second where applicable
• no standard for material, exterior color, or trim color

This type includes Buildings 2600, 2601, and 2800. These buildings were built as retail or office space, are nonresidential in scale, and are two or more stories tall. Their first recorded usage was in the 1940s and ‘60s. Their features include:

• mostly offices, some service and retail
• two to three stories
• much more parking, located in the rear
• large, vehicular-scaled signage, often freestanding, with multiple signs per store
• maintains street edge
• single exterior entry per store
• for buildings with an office, offices should be accessed through a single exterior entry
• glass door with metal frame
• residential scale windows and window walls
• flat roofs
• continuous awning over first story
• no standard for material or color
• trim in blue, brown, or black