Unimproved? Building a parking lot isn't cheap and it does make the land more useful.
It's cheaper than an actual building...
> and it does make the land more useful.
...and less useful than one, too.
You want people hailing from further distances via public transit and rail, and you want the majority of the businesses in an area servicing a highly dense, local community that can all walk there within 10-15 minutes.
This enzyme must be removed, the American Urban Body reworked to reject suburban thinking like this.