03-19-2021, 08:18 AM
(03-18-2021, 10:48 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Just two small notes to you well thought-out response. First, Duke St isn't going to be activated, as you say, so my hope would be just to make it less unpleasant. Even the King St side of Market Square is better than the Duke St side!
As for the parking garage, it's EuroPro so we wouldn't be on the hook for building a new one. Assuming that someone could get EuroPro excited about this kind of project, I would expect them to build some kind of combination of underground and podium parking to replace at least some of the lost capacity (I don't think it's being highly utilized at the moment).
Fair enough, Duke St. certainly could be less unpleasant.
Even though its owned by EuroPro, I believe it is open to the public, the preception would still be of the loss of a parking garage, it is quite large, replacing it entirely with underground parking would be extremely expensive or even impossible. I'm not sure that it matters that a developer may cover some or all of the cost.