Quote Originally Posted by davewindsor View Post
And if there's a game or event at Tiger Stadium or Ford Field, where are these hotel guests supposed to park?
Ummm... currently 200 of the 900 spaces in the GCP garage are dedicated parking spaces to the residents of the Kales Building [[likely need to pass thru a cardreader with gate). I'm sure that as other businesses move to GCP that other of the remaining 700 spaces will be dedicated to specific purposes.... and removed from public parking.

As for the luxury hotel needing a parking garage... if it's luxury, it'll likely have valet parking... in this instance underground.

As for where are the folks going to a ballgame going park.... there's lots of places from the Eastern Market area over to the Michigan Building, which has parking available on game days. Plus there's thousands of space all around the Foxtown area, as well as the mammoth Opera House Garage.

When Greektown Casino took over the site of the former Greektown parking structure... thousands of parking spaces were lost to football and baseball. It wasn't a problem then... and I don't think it'll be a problem now.

There's lots of parking downtown. Somehow I don't think the loss of a few hundred spaces will affect the parking situation. Folks can even park on Cobo or other garages farther from the stadia, and take the People Mover.