Originally Posted by
wahoonc
I wonder too. The big town just south of me built a new fancy pants $6.1 million 284 space parking garage...downtown. The mall (where all the big downtown stores relocated to some 37 years ago) has acres and acres of "free" parking. To add insult to injury due to some political shenanigans they paid farm rate taxes on it for the first 25 years.
Until zoning boards put a stop to nonstop uncontrolled sprawl it is going to continue.
Aaron
In the downtown of our little city they built a big parking garage a few years ago. I forget how much they spent for it or how many parking spaces are in it, but my SO and I did a back-of-the-envelope calulation and it came out to something like $17,000 per parking space. I don't know what they charge for parking in there. I walk or ride my bike to downtown on the rare occasion that I need to go there.