>>1343001Only in areas where zoning makes row houses the most profitable thing to build, which is pretty rare. For REIT-funded developments (meaning most of them), the standard mid-rise multifamily form is the 5-over-1, 5 wood-framed residential floors over a concrete pedestal ground floor of parking or retail. This complies with the International Building Code in a way that provides maximum revenue space at minimum construction cost. In areas where parking minimum requirements are very large, this gets modified into the Texas Doughnut: a 5-over-1 wrapped around a concrete parking garage at the core.
Most of these will have exterior cladding that tries to evoke a block of row houses, but maintains the internal form and functionality of a large monolithic apartment complex. Row houses are an artifact of their time, when individuals could buy a plot of urban land and build something on it to maximize their value. Urban zoning laws and other regulations are so restrictive now that the only people who can get things built are large institutions, and so they need to build cost-optimized, block-sized monoliths, with a standard form to ease permitting and financing.
