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Winning Downtowns Stack Their Decks

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Keith Schneider
27 October 2005 - 2:00pm

The age of attractive parking structures has arrived.

The 540-space Larry C. Hardy Parking Deck in Traverse City, Michigan represents a new value — handsome architectural design — added to the lengthy list of utilitarian considerations, like size, lighting, ease of access, safety, durability, efficiency and cost, which have long guided parking deck construction in America. So many cities, universities, hospitals, airports, train stations, corporate parks and housing developments are building upscale parking decks that they now represent a mainstream movement in civic design.

Full Story: Winning Downtowns Stack Their Decks
Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, October 27, 2005
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Beautiful but stacked parking

Submitted by Irvin Dawid on Fri, 10/28/2005 - 12:32.

Sorry, just can't appreciate the architectural beauty that Keith describes here.
Is the parking priced?
Is it financed through revenue bonds?
These are the questions I didn't see answered in the article

Irvin Dawid, Palo Alto, CA

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