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By the numbers: Downtown Grand Rapids' 95 percent full parking system
By Amy Biolchini MLive Grand Rapids. February 15, 2017.



Amidst rising concerns about the crunch on employee parking in downtown Grand Rapids, a major real estate firm has released its first-ever parking study to help businesses navigate public and private lots - and alternative transit options for workers.

Colliers International released a guide this week that took data from the city's Mobile GR department - the new name for the parking commission - and from Downtown Grand Rapids Inc.

The following figures describe downtown's parking situation:

17,606: parking spaces downtown in lots and ramps, 38.4 percent of which are owned by the city

1,800: on-street parking spaces, which have an average stay of 1.05 hours

$132: average cost of monthly parking permit in Grand Rapids

130: monthly parking lot permits available from the city

95: percent of Grand Rapids' monthly parking permits for employees that are spoken for

$47: cost of unlimited monthly Rapid bus pass

6: percent of people working downtown Grand Rapids (both residents and non-residents) that don't use a car to get to work

3: recently proposed developments downtown that would impact parking, including Warner Tower, which would be built on a surface parking lot but include seven stories of parking deck; Studio C!, which would be built on 300 spaces of city parking lot but would include a 900-space parking deck; and Hinman Tower, which is proposed for a triangle-shaped surface parking lot but has not proposed parking



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