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Originally Posted by David_99
So the Co-Operators employees on Record St were just told to not park near the old Co-Op next door as the building will be demolished end of Jan/early Feb. Now the talk is that Sobeys is planning on using the space as "parking". Whether that means a lot or a structure, not sure. Another parking lot is the last thing we need downtown, but seeing as how it's a short walk and a hop over the train tracks from the Events Centre makes it interesting.
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- the Co-op building itself will be no loss.
- I agree that the last thing the city needs is another surface parking lot. The main issue that I have with the downtown parking situation is the plethora of surface parking that is not available to the casual user because it is leased monthly parking patrolled by those useless vulture booters. These need to be replaced by indoor parking structures.
- You're right that the juxtaposition of this property WRT to the events centre is interesting, especially given the plans to build a tunnel from the events centre to the south side of the tracks. A parking structure here would be very strategic. There wouldn't be much point though to Sobeys actually building one until 2018, when the events centre is slated to open.
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