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Originally Posted by davehogan
Typically for a hotel to try to use the no parking on site excuse they already have an agreement with a nearby office building to share parking space. Since offices and hotels have opposite needs for parking they work well near each other. The Nines is a great local example of a hotel not needing onsite parking because they made other arrangements early on.
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The Nines didn't really have a choice about it. They opened a hotel in an existing building; it wouldn't have made any sense to demolish the building and put up a new one just because they wanted parking.
Over the long term, I don't really see a downside for building underground parking for every new large building. Even in the unlikely event that we go car-less in the downtown area in the future , that space can be converted for other purposes. Frankly, it makes more sense in my mind to build parking space that can be used now and converted later vs. building housing/retail/office space that sits empty for now and doesn't get used for years.