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CalgaryTiger said:
The pace is impressive. Almost like underground parking takes up a lot of time and materials. Makes me think about the process from a developers perspective to figure out if a development needs parking, how much it needs, and what do we have to show the city to get away with no requiring parking. For example, I think about the Weadickville Hotel, no way that should require an underground. Most of the year they have a massive unused parking lot. The time of year they don't (Stampede) they should be able to figure something out with a valet.
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Great point! I remember about 12 years ago driving to San Francisco and staying at a hotel downtown. They didn't have their own on-site parking facilities, so when we arrived they valet our car to a parking garage somewhere downtown they had contract for a certain amount of stalls. A much more efficient use of space.
 
dazzlingdave88 said:
Great point! I remember about 12 years ago driving to San Francisco and staying at a hotel downtown. They didn't have their own on-site parking facilities, so when we arrived they valet our car to a parking garage somewhere downtown they had contract for a certain amount of stalls. A much more efficient use of space.
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Is it more efficient if a second site needs to accommodate the parking? Seems like a parkade below grade is more efficient as everything is contained within a single parcel. To the original point though, excavation / construction is definitely faster & cheaper if the parkade is excluded.
 
In and out privileges aren't normally included with off site hotel parking. Imagine that for your actual home.

Building underground parking takes time and costs a fortune fewer homeowners can afford. Podium parking structures for high rises are usually really ugly. The best examples still create oversized podiums and, a collective of large podiums creates a bland masterplanned urban environment.

Parking is best below grade. One idea that could be cost cutting is to raise grade to the top of a community wide parking podium.
 
Mountain Man said:
Is it more efficient if a second site needs to accommodate the parking? Seems like a parkade below grade is more efficient as everything is contained within a single parcel. To the original point though, excavation / construction is definitely faster & cheaper if the parkade is excluded.
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Great question.....I think the efficiency comes from the fact that the other parkades are already built and not used to capacity. So why add more parking if there is capacity elsewhere?
 
maestro said:
In and out privileges aren't normally included with off site hotel parking.
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Offsite self-parking can definitely be weird. But I don't think I've ever had valet parking that wasn't available 24x7 with in/out privileges. The only downsides were cost per day, and having to wait for your car when you want to leave.
 
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