A commercial building parking lot is in fact a very dangerous place, the law breakers know the parking lots are private property, so no tickets for things like speeding or wrecks in a parking lot at least here in FL. Add the grocery stores with Liquor or Liquor Stores in the complex, where people go to get more liquor, mid drunk. The entire parking lot is a condition Yellow. Watch out in those sloped lots with those big SS carts, saw a woman in Destin let go of her full cart to open a car door, it hit a car broadside, 1/2 way down the lot from her at about 20 mph, did about $3k worth of damage. Good entrainment to get a cool drink and sit behind an island and watch the lot show.

“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it."
Francis Marion - The Swamp Fox