Per the presentation sides shown above: Whole Foods/Sears redevelopment - 1,300 underground parking spaces.
According to this very informative document...
https://casestudies.uli.org/wp-conte...se-Studies.pdf
...the current Clayton Lane project includes 1,647 parking spaces, located as follows:
- An above-grade, four-level parking structure with 458 spaces. The first two levels of the structure, completed in Phase I, are wrapped in retail shops and restaurants.
- A parking garage with three levels and 529 spaces, located beneath the Janus building and JW Marriott hotel.
- A four-level underground parking garage on the west side of Clayton Lane with 495 spaces.
- A street-level parking lot at Whole Foods with 147 spaces.
- Street parking on Clayton Lane, with 18 spaces (self-service parking-receipt kiosks accept credit cards).
I wonder how many of the 458 and 495 and 147 spaces will be replaced by or are counted within the 1,300 spaces, or if it will be a net increase (god forbid!) of 1,300 spaces.
Of course, the more parking you provide, the more traffic you generate. The intersection of 1st & University is supposedly the city's busiest intersection. So any increase in the number of parking spaces will only make traffic in Cherry Creek worse. An enlightened developer would reduce the amount of parking and then take the money they would have spent on more parking and use that to subsidize some form of public transit (free shuttle to/from downtown, EcoPasses for all employees, free transit day-passes for customers, etc.).