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Originally Posted by esquire
The lack of parking at TNS will be a limiting factor in the continued growth in the area... there are partners of TNS tenants without parking spaces in the complex and that is an annoyance for some of them, as they're ponying up higher costs to be at a place where they can't park their car the way that they could in the old place. And it's going to get worse as the new TNS buildings come on stream.
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EXACTLY All too often it gets lots in the discussions here that those big shinny new buildings everyone seems to love need supporting infrastructure in place including water and server hookups, hydro substations, roads and yes even fairly accessible parking.
When are are a partner in a law firm billing big dollars having to say walk 6 minutes a day to and from your parking spot once a day is an hour a week. If you bill $100 an hour that walk is costing you $400 on top of what you are paying for parking.
Winnipeg has already had a number of offices either leave downtown or choose to locate their office out in the suburbs often due to the lack of close, safe, available and "affordable" parking. The insurance company that moved to Polo Festival was the most public of them.
You cannot built a strip mall in the suburbs without adequate parking but its okay to build 19 floor office towers in downtown with minimal net new parking. It is a double standard and needs to stop.
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Originally Posted by Wigglez
Oh and the 2 story one built into TNS I'm sure they'll have access to... wow theres lots of parking within a 1 minute walk of this place...
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Perhaps in your rush to post you missed that esquire already posted that there is zero parking availability in TNS.
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Originally Posted by Wigglez
Yeah this panic is very odd...
Theres the RWB parkade, the Medical Arts parkade, the CityPlace parkade, the Convention Centre parkade, and the several story Impark parkade all within a block of this spot. If their employees can't walk 1 whole block from the various parkades available to the public then theres no helping them...
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You act as if these lots all have 100% vacancy every day of the week in the new building is going to finally be providing customers for the lots.
From memory RWB parkade is full or nearly full most days and would have limited monthly spots available. CityPlace to the best of my knowledge runs at the MPI pool vehicle lot and senior staff parking during the daytime. Add in the tenants in TNS that can't get parking in that building and there is likely no available spots there. Convention Centre also is likely not taking new monthly parking as they exceed their own capacity on event days and yes they are often weekdays.
Sure there are tonnes of places to park near the new Wawanesa building but that is
very different from the number of
available spots.
It is sort of similar to saying that downtown Winnipeg doesn't need the (now built) new hydro substation as we already have one. Reality is at some point all the supporting infrastructure hits a tipping point and more needs to be built.
People need to look at the
whole picture and stop looking at single projects in isolation. For example there is talk about how the extra people might have an impact on retail and restaurants in the area in a positive way but there is a complete disregard for the logistics of how those people are getting to that new building. Last I checked we still cannot teleport from home to the office.
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