The ground-floor shop sold newspapers, tobacco, sandwiches.

Its many small design businesses are spread throughout the vast neighborhood, and not necessarily in ground-floor shops.

The unexcavated ground-floor shops of this building are now 9m below the current road level.

A ground-floor antique shop will remain.

Plans call for ground-floor shops to face Grove Street, and a restaurant and bank will be on the mezzanine level of the main lobby.

There will be a health spa and ground-floor shops.

With their low roof lines and ground-floor shops, the buildings won't be blockbusters.

What possible attention to business could make these little ground-floor shops do anything but lose money?

A second design consisted of another six-storey building with a large ground-floor shop, a first-storey car park, and four floors of flats.

Some were abandoned, some were burned down and some still had ground-floor retail shops.