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How to be awesome at parking in the Short North
By Chris DeVille
March 27, 2008
Many of our Best of Columbus winners are located in the Short North, where it can be very difficult to find a parking spot. To help you get to your favorite locales, we’ve compiled some ideas for what to do when the free lots and meters are all filled up.
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I designed a parking garage for that lot as part of my senior thesis in college. Mine was clad in all black stone though. It looked like the monolith. I did have some greenery but no park benches. Why would you want to sit behind a parking garage and stare at someone’s house?
Mainly for residents wanting to chat or people needing to take a break from walking to/fro the park? People using the parking garage waiting for friends. IDK (green space and benches just seem to go together) Stalking someone living across the street. :lol:
Since it is right behind Axis it would most likely be used as the truck-stop of the short north if you get my drift…
My project also involved removing everything on that block. Axis – outta there. The building with Rosendales in it – outta there. The project was a movie theater/commercial space/gathering space/parking space sorta project. It’s actually kind of fun to look at it now that I’ve lived here a while and know the area better.
lahoti and his crew own all those lots back there. building condos at some point. big suprise huh… ive seen the plans maybe a year ago and a parking garage has been designed into the center of the buildings to look like housing. im not sure if its going to be a public garage, kind of doubt it.
As far as “except the residents” is concerned. Have you seen that lot? I park in it, it’s not pretty. Looking at a parking garage would be to no ones detriment.
+1
Anything is better than how it looks now, I was commenting on going forward. 8)
Parking garage would be cool, condos no big shockers would be nice to retain some public parking if possible though.
im not sure if you are talking to me but yeah ive seen those lots. i grew up down the street from them and remember when bobby layman chevy was there. but a huge concrete parking garage would not fit and would never be built. they are incorperating a garage in the project im just not sure if its public or private. im assuming that from the size of the project and the size of the garage, it looked to me to be for the residents of the condos.
Oh yeah, and it’s not actually hard to park in the Short North.
I have a lot to park in now and a permit so it’s easy for me, I know. But before we moved and before we had permits we had to find spaces on the street. Except for comfest, I would say the average was, well immediate honestly. I can’t remember a time it was ever difficult. When the meters were taken, I would park on first street and walk two blocks. Even during comfest I would say you can get a spot within 20 minutes. It would be nice if it were easier. I certainly wouldn’t stand in the way of something that made it easier for customers to get to me, but it’s really not as big of a deal as everyone makes it out to be.
I agree I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than 10 mins trying to find a spot. That time even accounts for red lights and stop signs. 8) I don’t know if it has anything to do with me living in the short nort for a few years and hanging out there many moons longer. :wink:
1st as well as summit are always easy to locate a spot when others choices elude.
I found a free street spot during the Arnold Hop. I’ll be telling the grandkids about that one. 8)
I would like to keep pretending that night didn’t happen.
Not too many extra sales that night? ;)
I was down there that nite…seemed like there were less people out on the street than any other hop I’ve ever been to. Yet, all restaurants had at least a 1+ hour wait.
Not too many extra sales that night? ;)
That wasn’t really our crowd. We had two people in that I thought were from the arnold classic because they were huge, and they got mad when I asked then if they were in town for it.
It’s easy, really: ride a bike. I always get a parking space, usually right in front of where I want to go, even in the SN. If you live in the city then you need a bike, just like if you live in the suburbs you need a car.
Did you read the linked article?
Yeah, there is a map in the article to the bike lot in the parking garage behind axis.
Did you read the linked article?
I think it’s pretty clear that I didn’t. That would require going back to the 1st page clicking on a link. I’ll get around to it eventually.
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To me 10 minutes seems like a long time, but maybe I was spoiled by growing up in suburbia.
As for the parking garage behind Axis, I definitely should have checked on that before printing it, but I did have a source:
http://www.shortnorth.org/news.asp?n=12
[quote="DeVille"]
To me 10 minutes seems like a long time, but maybe I was spoiled by growing up in suburbia.
As for the parking garage behind Axis, I definitely should have checked on that before printing it, but I did have a source:
http://www.shortnorth.org/news.asp?n=12
Yeah, maybe once was enough for that joke. Sorry.