Downtown Wilkes-Barre Revitalization Momentum Continues (Pittsburgh, Reading: tax, live in, floors)

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Well, if you really cared about downtown revitalization, you'd do it TG. Woman up!

You're right, Mags. I feel so ashamed. I'm leaving now. We could meet for lunch - tomorrow!

[W-B proud]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Where are those shoppers supposed to park?

If the Reading Market type idea came about on the Sterling Site..the parking garage would be located above the market. the market itself would be the ground level of the parking garage. This would serve as the main parking for the marketplace and as the main parking for the River Common. Problem solved!

[weluvpa]

LOL The unicorns and dreams in this thread are too funny. The reality is that it will most likely sit empty as a dirt lot for a while. There is no money, there is no REAL need and there is no draw or market for any expenditure of taxpayer monies that would be a WORTH WHILE investment that would show a plus or gain on monies invested by the private sector...Essentially there is NO REASON to build anything there at all...

Reading market idea is an expensive pipe dream that would see little to no significant traffic to warrant that kind of out put of funds by anyone....

Do you guys see the empty, unused and basically abandoned properties all over the downtown's of the city's through out the valley and region?

[theatergypsy]

[quote=weluvpa;24428952]LOL The unicorns and dreams in this thread are too funny. The reality is that it will most likely sit empty as a dirt lot for a while. There is no money, there is no REAL need and there is no draw or market for any expenditure of taxpayer monies that would be a WORTH WHILE investment that would show a plus or gain on monies invested by the private sector...Essentially there is NO REASON to build anything there at all...

Reading market idea is an expensive pipe dream that would see little to no significant traffic to warrant that kind of out put of funds by anyone....

Do you guys see the empty, unused and basically abandoned properties all over the downtown's of the city's through out the valley and region?[/quote]

Actually, no. I'm too busy looking for a parking spot!

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

If the Reading Market type idea came about on the Sterling Site..the parking garage would be located above the market. the market itself would be the ground level of the parking garage. This would serve as the main parking for the marketplace and as the main parking for the River Common. Problem solved!

I said that very thing in Post #138.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by theatergypsy

actually, no. I'm too busy looking for a parking spot!:d

lol!

[warren zee]

I don't see a parking crisis in downtown W-B. It would be nice to have a place to shop for groceries though, without heading out to W-B Twp or Kingston.

[CoalCityTrash]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Where are those shoppers supposed to park?

I just said. In just a 2 block radius of the square, we have the 6 story Conahan Parking structure, the Ramada & Boscovs park & lock, & the park & lock east (each 5 stories), 2 4 story parking structures near Wilkes, 2 4-story parking structures by the theater, a 4 story parking complex by City Hall, 2 5 story parking structures by the courthouse, about 60 ground level parking lots (stack those all on top of each other & you'd have more than 110 floors of parking!), & THOUSANDS of meter spots. Like I said, that's just a 2 block radius.

[Pa Dutch]

Originally Posted by CoalCityTrash

I just said. In just a 2 block radius of the square, we have the 6 story Conahan Parking structure, the Ramada & Boscovs park & lock, & the park & lock east (each 5 stories), 2 4 story parking structures near Wilkes, 2 4-story parking structures by the theater, a 4 story parking complex by City Hall, 2 5 story parking structures by the courthouse, about 60 ground level parking lots (stack those all on top of each other & you'd have more than 110 floors of parking!), & THOUSANDS of meter spots. Like I said, that's just a 2 block radius. If you can't find parking downtown,

Umm, the courthouse isn't 2 blocks from the square.

[SteelCityRising]

Why is it that in most other major American cities, including my current city of Pittsburgh, people don't balk at walking up to a mile (or even further) to access points of interest from a parking garage whereas in NEPA the thought of walking from a parking garage near Public Square to the River Commons---two blocks away---is preposterous?

I realize that there are some people like theatergypsy who are physically unable to walk an appreciable distance without extreme difficulty. With that being said there are plenty of people in this thread who are decrying a "lack of parking" in Downtown Wilkes-Barre who SHOULD be as able-bodied or nearly as able-bodied as I am, and I NEVER had difficulty finding parking in Downtown W-B when I lived in the area just a few years ago. If I wanted to go to Barnes & Noble, Rodano's, Thai Thai, Cafe Toscana, Cinema 14, the Kirby Center, or any of the other fine Downtown venues I frequented I would always find parking within a few short minutes of searching for it.

You can also do what I currently do here in Pittsburgh to avoid the hassle of paying to park at a meter or in a garage altogether---park in a nearby residential neighborhood that doesn't have permit parking restrictions (The Heights? The Historic District?) and walk from there. While my colleagues at one of my bank branches were paying $12-$15 daily to park in a garage roughly across the street I was paying $0 to walk an extra 12 minutes to my car. Yes. 12 minutes (or roughly saving $1 for each minute walked).

Americans overall are just becoming lazier. I do have sympathy for people like theatergypsy who are no longer "Spring chickens" and can't live that Pollyanna vision of walking everywhere for everything, but I see plenty of "curvy" people in NEPA driving their SUVs from store to store in the Arena Hub Shopping Center or Shoppes at Montage, for example, instead of just parking in one spot and walking from store to store.