Re: [Mpls] Cub at 46th

[j c harmon]

Underground parking at a grocery store? You've got to be kidding. The cost 
is astronomical and can you imagine the fender benders? I run into the worst 
drivers ever in parking lots at grocery stores; put it underground and it's 
a demolition derby.
Jill Harmon
Cleveland





From: Bruce Gaarder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mpls] Cub at 46th
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:47:54 -0600 (CST)
Matt Mason would like Cub to have underground parking or parking behind
the store or apartments overhead.
I can just imagine how much fun it would be to live above a Cub store -
open 24 hours every day, trucks making early/late deliveries, cars pulling
in and out of the lot, garbage compressors running.
I expect that they already have the back of the store tied up with bays
for trucks, garbage compressors, utilities, etc.
The amount of parking a Cub needs to survive wouldn't fit in the back,
most likely, unless the land was very wide.
Where else, outside of downtown, are businesses being required to put
parking underground?
He also wonders where the new residents are to ride the train.  The claim
is that existing residents are supposed to switch over from their cars.
Future growth, if any, in ridership may come from new residents.  The
forecast growth of 2,500 round trips a day over 20 years is hardly a
business-busting annual rate of increase (1.1%).
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Bruce Gaarder
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