[bystander1]

Those parking decks are going to do a lot for downtown. Many developers are simply waiting for more parking in order to move forward with their plans.

Did you know that part of the reason Colonial scrapped their downtown high-rise is because they wanted the city to build them 2 parking decks within six months?

But the city couldn't give Colonial a gaurantee that they could do it in time because the city was already working on building 2 other parking decks downtown: the Intermodal Deck, and the convention center/hotel parking deck.

And now add to those the Coosa Street deck and the lower Dexter Avenue deck and there will be plenty of parking deck-building going on for a while. I think the city should have just said yes anyway but Colonial has enough money to build their own decks...why try to make the city build their decks?

I think it was just a lame excuse anyway.