Articles tagged: underground parking structure
opinion: Ann Arbor city officials should be more careful when examining options for developing, upgrading city
Posted: Feb 20, 2013It is distressing and frankly depressing to learn that the Water Treatment Plant is falling apart and will soon have to be replaced or substantially repaired. It would seem this is news to our mayor ... Read more »
Early customers at Ann Arbor's new underground parking garage: 'Beautiful' and smells 'brand-new'
Posted: Jul 18, 2012On its first actual day in operation, impressions of Ann Arbor's new underground parking garage range from "it's beautiful" to "it's hot and smells like paint." Read more »
Library Lane parking garage set for partial opening for first day of Ann Arbor Art Fair
Posted: Jul 17, 2012A manger for Republic Parking now says the new Library Lane underground parking garage will be open for the first day of Ann Arbor Art Fair on Wednesday morning. "It's going to be opening," said ... Read more »
Q&A with Carl Luckenbach on opening of new underground parking garage: 'I feel good about it'
Posted: Jul 16, 2012As Ann Arbor officials celebrated the grand opening of the new Library Lane parking garage Thursday night, Mayor John Hieftje gave credit where it's due. Read more »
with poll: Ann Arbor's newest parking garage gets mostly rave reviews at grand opening
Posted: Jul 13, 2012Michael Finney, CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., was one of the first users of Ann Arbor's new underground parking garage on Thursday. Pulling into downtown Ann Arbor for an afternoon meeting, Finney saw ... Read more »
photo gallery: Library Lane underground parking garage opens to public in downtown Ann Arbor
Posted: Jul 12, 2012Ann Arbor's new Library Lane underground parking structure ceremonially opened to the public Thursday night, bringing 711 parking spaces on four levels below ground, plus another 52 spaces above grade. Dozens of people came out ... Read more »
2nd Ward Ann Arbor City Council candidates differ on what should go atop Library Lot
Posted: Jul 11, 2012The two candidates competing in the 2nd Ward race for the Ann Arbor City Council have at least one thing in common: They're both Harvard grads. Incumbent Tony Derezinski holds a master of laws degree ... Read more »
with video: Group using YouTube video to make case for central park in downtown Ann Arbor
Posted: Jul 06, 2012Will Hathaway, one of the leaders of the Library Green group, uploaded the video to YouTube to make the argument Ann Arbor officials have two choices for the city-owned site atop a new underground parking structure downtown: a park or a parking lot. Read more »
Time capsule in new underground parking garage will document life in Ann Arbor in 2012
Posted: Jul 06, 2012What will Ann Arborites of the future think of us in the year 2112? Well, that partly depends on what they find when they unearth a soon-to-be-buried time capsule. As part of the completion of ... Read more »
DDA officials hoping to cut down wait time to exit downtown Ann Arbor parking structures
Posted: Jul 02, 2012The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority is borrowing $1.25 million from Republic Parking for installation of new equipment in four downtown parking structures. That includes automated pay stations that DDA officials hope will significantly reduce ... Read more »
with poll: Library Green group: Ann Arbor has unique opportunity to create a downtown central park
Posted: Jun 18, 2012For the foreseeable future, a surface parking lot will stand atop the 700-space garage that extends four stories below ground off Fifth Avenue in downtown Ann Arbor. City officials hope to see the site redeveloped ... Read more »
Long-closed Fifth Avenue in downtown Ann Arbor reopens
Posted: Jun 15, 2012Fifth Avenue, closed for nearly two years between Liberty and East William streets, opened in downtown Ann Arbor today to the delight and surprise of pedestrians and motorists. Read more »
with poll: DDA offers incentives to encourage parking in downtown Ann Arbor's new underground structure
Posted: Jun 07, 2012With the new Library Lane parking structure set to open next month, DDA leaders are rolling out the first substantive experiment with differential parking rates in the downtown. Read more »
South Fifth Avenue, closed for nearly two years, to open by June 19
Posted: Jun 07, 2012Way back in September of 2009, Ann Arbor officials expected they’d be closing South Fifth Avenue for about six months while construction crews built the city’s underground parking structure next to the Ann Arbor District ... Read more »
Portion of Fifth Avenue in downtown Ann Arbor to close for 4 days as other portion is set to reopen
Posted: May 16, 2012Another portion of Fifth Avenue in downtown Ann Arbor will close temporarily starting later this week, while it looks promising that an already closed portion will reopen soon. The two-block portion from Huron to Liberty ... Read more »
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