Parking follies
What Kevin says about the idiotic parking policy of Brightleaf Square.
Adding, i used to be a regular (once a month or so) diner at Devine's. One day they made a big deal about anti-war demonstrators staying off of the unused space where the biciycle shop used to be (which is now Alivia's).
Haven't spent a nickel in Devine's since then. Brightleaf businesses could find themselves occupying a similar position on my discretionary spending list.
Adding, i used to be a regular (once a month or so) diner at Devine's. One day they made a big deal about anti-war demonstrators staying off of the unused space where the biciycle shop used to be (which is now Alivia's).
Haven't spent a nickel in Devine's since then. Brightleaf businesses could find themselves occupying a similar position on my discretionary spending list.
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3 Comments:
Hey Barry,
I'm with you all the way to the part about not patronizing Brightleaf businesses. :) I don't want to punish the good people at Dolly's, or Chumas, or Satie's for the fact that Brightleaf Square management is, well, full of B.S. No pun intended.
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Unknown, at 2:41 PM
Brightleaf Square management doesn't get any of my money, so i don't have any way to impact their decision making. Brightleaf Square tenants pay a lot of money to B.S. management. If they start noticing a dropoff due to management's misguided policies, they'll be more able to change them.
I don't mind Gary's parking deck idea, if it's done right. The top of the deck could be another choice for that skate park we've been hearing about for the past 5 years. You know, the one that Parks and Rec wanted to put in Duke Park at first.
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Barry, at 3:09 PM
Ideally, I'd love it to just be an extension of the small storefronts all the way around Main, Gregson, and Morgan (with a N-S alley in the middle) and parking be damned. But parking...drives...everything. I wish it weren't so, but it has been eye-opening to me to see landscape architects start a project design with the parking and work backwards. The idea that you have to have high parking ratios (spaces/square feet or spaces/units) permeates the development process.
GK
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Gary, at 10:46 PM
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