Why does it download only as a legacy shapefile? Not geodatabase format?
ArcGIS open data ... of course, availability of formats might vary with organizations... there is a help link ...
See Adding additional download files and Enabling file geodatabase downloads.
probably because the shapefile can be used in a variety of other software packages, both gis and non-gis applications.
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