04-21-2019, 06:29 PM
(04-21-2019, 04:18 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: Bud Gardens footprint is not any larger and has no parking. There is Duke garage. There is Benton Garage and there is an LRT stop right there!!
I am pretty sure the parking situation in London is much better, being that its downtown is fairly large compared to Kitchener. The LRT does help though, if that's how people will travel. I'm not sure how many spots are left to use at night at all facilities, though C&B garage usually is full for P1 and P2. Duke perhaps is only one full level (with the exception the suite parking, which wouldn't be assessable). Civic is about quarter full at night, Market is full at night, city hall is maybe 1/4 full, but is a good walk. There is some surface parking, but anything on the west end is full until 10 pm, and there might be a hundred spots or so available closer to Market Square. I would estimate of the 3,400 spots, 1,000 are long term rentals, so that gives us 2,400 spots, of which another 1,000 or so are used before 10 pm, and another 800 that are just too far from Market Square, especially in the brutal cold. So perhaps 600 spots available on game night. This assumes that Centre in the Square doesn't have any event, or City Hall.
Of course, I have no idea about how much private parking there might be...but obviously you'd be losing Market Square regardless.
I am just saying that if the city were to decide to build a arena at that spot, they'd need to figure out parking before that.