Real Estate
Living above the shops: mixed use, done quietly
2.10 commercial acres at the gate and 3.12 residential acres behind it. What a mixed-use address changes about the everyday.
Published 2026-02-09
Tamra Asteria is a mixed-development address: most of it home, and 2.10 acres of it a proposed mall and multiplex with a brightly-lit, mall-like facade. The residential side occupies 3.12 acres behind it.
What changes day to day
Everyday errands and evening plans are both a walk from your door. Groceries stop being a drive. A film stops being a plan. For families running two schedules, the minutes add up faster than the square footage does.
What good mixed use avoids
The risk in mixing uses is that retail traffic reaches the homes. Here, the commercial acreage sits at the gate rather than inside the residential podium, and the homes rise above their own landscaped deck — separated in plan and in section.
