Cherry Creek Mall parking (Boulder, Mead: home, purchase, theater)

[brown_dog_us]

Originally Posted by suzco

Downtown Boulder/Pearl Street Mall area has not had free parking for many years - anyone consider how that has affected businesses, shopping patterns etc. - is the Cherry Creek Mall area now facing issues more similar to there and downtown Denver (also no free parking) than more suburban style shopping areas?

Downtown Boulder is struggling a bit because of a lack of parking. Too many workers are willing to pay the metered rate to park there, and it's causing a parking shortage for shoppers. The City is trying to find the balance, and will most likely go to a system where the first hour is low cost, but it escalates quickly from there to as much as $20 an hour. Aspen has already gone to this pricing structure and it is fairly successful. Tough on the workers though.

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by suzco

Downtown Boulder/Pearl Street Mall area has not had free parking for many years - anyone consider how that has affected businesses, shopping patterns etc. - is the Cherry Creek Mall area now facing issues more similar to there and downtown Denver (also no free parking) than more suburban style shopping areas?

Short answer: Yes.

[headingtoDenver]

Originally Posted by suzco

Downtown Boulder/Pearl Street Mall area has not had free parking for many years - anyone consider how that has affected businesses, shopping patterns etc. - is the Cherry Creek Mall area now facing issues more similar to there and downtown Denver (also no free parking) than more suburban style shopping areas?

It has been about a year since I've been to downtown Boulder, but parking is completely free on the weekends (garages, lots, street parking).


https://bouldercolorado.gov/parking-services


I think Cherry Creek should do something like that. Free parking on the weekend, but not during the week. This will help eliminate the workers parking there and then commuting downtown. I do wonder if they have a special lot for the mall employees.

[emm74]

I don't think that downtown Boulder and CCM is a valid comparison. CCM has parking structures and lots that they own and maintain control over, not at all the same as city streets.

[emm74]

Cherry Creek Shopping Center customers will have to buy themselves a parking spot after the mall announced it would do away with its first-hour free policy.

Starting Jan. 21, there will be a $2 fee for the first two hours of parking, $2 for each additional hour and a maximum of $16, Cherry Creek mall General Manager Jeramy Burkinshaw said.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/1...-hour-parking/

I haven't been there since they instituted paid parking even with the free hour. Now even less incentive to go. It wasn't just the parking fee that stopped me, I haven't been to Park Meadows Mall in years either. I just don't shop that way any more.

[downtownnola]

Originally Posted by emm74

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/1...-hour-parking/

I haven't been there since they instituted paid parking even with the free hour. Now even less incentive to go. It wasn't just the parking fee that stopped me, I haven't been to Park Meadows Mall in years either. I just don't shop that way any more.

I haven't been to that mall for years. It has become too snooty for me. Pay to park? No thanks.

[vunderbar]

This is a big win for Amazon. Brick and mortar stores are you listening?

[davebarnes]

At least with the free hour I could sprint in/out of the Apple store.
Not anymore.
F—k the mall.

[iSudo]

Originally Posted by emm74

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/1...-hour-parking/

I haven't been there since they instituted paid parking even with the free hour. Now even less incentive to go. It wasn't just the parking fee that stopped me, I haven't been to Park Meadows Mall in years either. I just don't shop that way any more.

Eww gross. No thanks for me.

[himain]

I don't have a problem with it at all. It keeps the riff raft out. $2 isn't gong to break my bank.