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Sorry I could not get a good photo of the drawings through the windows. One thing I did notice was the area that looks like a parking structure is located on the Shiawassee side of the "new corner building" between the corner and the current newly constructed apartments. I don't know if it is a parking structure but that is what it looks like.
Came across the work zone cam for the Marketplace addition the other day. (I don't believe it had already been posted.) I imagine there's some interior work still to be done, but it looks nearly complete. Their web site indicates spring 2018.
That was pretty cool, I almost found the weather more interesting than the building. They have taken down the depiction of the next phase to be built at the studio, I will keep my eye open for any new drawing on display.
What I noticed is how underutilized the vehicle parking lot is. I did not count spots but ~1/3 of the spots appeared empty and some vehicles move infrequently. Maybe with adding many new apartments utilization rates will be higher. Seems like a poor use of space.
Excellent insight. I agree that offering less parking could be beneficial in many ways and would support this. I support more buildings or greenspace over parking any day. You are right about putting parking space to better use.
From google maps, it looks appears there are 155 spots + 5 ADA spots. This is prior to the expansion of the lot to accommodate the new building. The camera view does cover the farthest part of the lot from the building. From the video, I could reliably count 39 (25%) of the total spots in the video. There were on average 12 spots occupied in this area, (n=30), which is a 31% utilization rate of the 25% of the total spots. While it is a fair assumption that residents are at work as the images are lit. So there is observer bias in this count. This could make the lot appear less occupied as the images do not capture the residents parking after work hours. If I only knew which frames were the weekend then I could get a better understanding.
I would conclude that there is ample daytime parking in the lot. Is this a resident only lot, I do not know? Maybe this could be useful for businesses in the area to have shared day/night spots between business and resident parking.
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Hey come over to REOtown for lunch, and some shopping and check it out yourself. There is a lot of free parking!
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Thanks sabatoa , I must have missed that news item
ok, I'll give a try! The drawing that I am speaking of is projected on a flat screen so photographing through the window might not work too well.
Sorry I could not get a good photo of the drawings through the windows. One thing I did notice was the area that looks like a parking structure is located on the Shiawassee side of the "new corner building" between the corner and the current newly constructed apartments. I don't know if it is a parking structure but that is what it looks like.
Came across the work zone cam for the Marketplace addition the other day. (I don't believe it had already been posted.) I imagine there's some interior work still to be done, but it looks nearly complete. Their web site indicates spring 2018.
That was pretty cool, I almost found the weather more interesting than the building. They have taken down the depiction of the next phase to be built at the studio, I will keep my eye open for any new drawing on display.
What I noticed is how underutilized the vehicle parking lot is. I did not count spots but ~1/3 of the spots appeared empty and some vehicles move infrequently. Maybe with adding many new apartments utilization rates will be higher. Seems like a poor use of space.
Excellent insight. I agree that offering less parking could be beneficial in many ways and would support this. I support more buildings or greenspace over parking any day. You are right about putting parking space to better use.
From google maps, it looks appears there are 155 spots + 5 ADA spots. This is prior to the expansion of the lot to accommodate the new building. The camera view does cover the farthest part of the lot from the building. From the video, I could reliably count 39 (25%) of the total spots in the video. There were on average 12 spots occupied in this area, (n=30), which is a 31% utilization rate of the 25% of the total spots. While it is a fair assumption that residents are at work as the images are lit. So there is observer bias in this count. This could make the lot appear less occupied as the images do not capture the residents parking after work hours. If I only knew which frames were the weekend then I could get a better understanding.
I would conclude that there is ample daytime parking in the lot. Is this a resident only lot, I do not know? Maybe this could be useful for businesses in the area to have shared day/night spots between business and resident parking.
Fluorescents vs LED lights perhaps?