This downtown parking lot could be a contender for Saskatoon's new arena
Parking lot on 22nd Street 'a likely candidate' for discussion
Guy Quenneville · CBC News · Posted: May 02, 2019 6:00 AM CT
Ask people where they think Saskatoon's new downtown arena should go and they get cagey.
Not Alan Wallace.
The former chief planner for the City of Saskatoon says the large parking lot on 22nd Street, across from the Midtown Plaza and TCU Place, ticks off a lot of boxes.
It's close to the First Avenue bus-rapid-transit line that Saskatoon city councillors approved this past Monday.
"Otherwise you have to have a lot of surface parking," Wallace said.
And the lot's proximity to the mall, TCU Place and a convention hall makes it a suitable pillar for a planned entertainment district, Wallace added.
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