Real estate`s hottest new amenity is . . . the mailroom?


Real estate`s hottest new amenity is . . . the mailroom?


Step inside a newly built apartment complex in almost any American city and you’re likely to find people congregating in an unexpected place. They’re not in the pool or the game rooms or the gym. The people are gathering in the mailroom.

Through an unusual collision of building codes, postal regulations, shopping habits, and a global pandemic, mailrooms have become a new kind of social space in apartment buildings. And designers are finding new ways of taking what has long been a utilitarian peripheral space and turning it into a central square where residents can dwell and interact...


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RSK: Good idea and improves safety and social gathering.

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