NEW SHADE STRUCTURES INSTALLED AT DOWNTOWN BRENHAM PARKING LOT
Anyone visiting downtown Brenham may notice a new addition to one of the city parking lots.
C, 200 North Park Street, in downtown Brenham.
City Lot C, located at 200 North Park Street between North Park and North Baylor Streets, now has a shade structure providing cover for the inside parking spaces.
According to Brenham Main Street Manager Leigh Linden, Main Street’s Economic Vitality Committee set out to improve downtown parking by installing the shade structure at Lot C in order to encourage employees, shoppers and visitors to use the underutilized space.
Linden says the shade structure provides a more comfortable parking option and should help free up street parking space for customers at downtown businesses.
The initiative was funded through a $49,700 partnership between the Brenham Main Street Board and the Brenham Community Development Corporation (BCDC). BCDC projects are paid for with local sales tax proceeds.
Linden says there are currently no plans to extend this project to other lots. However, she says if this “accomplishes all that we set out to do”, they may look at expanding in the future.
Did not a study some years back suggest a covering from the Ant Street Inn along Commerce Street to Baylor? This would provide cover where there is actually pedestrian traffic.
Let’s just be honest. The person who wanted this cover parks there daily and wanted coverage. This isn’t for tourism. This isn’t for merchants running businesses or their customers. I’m sure it will be followed by reserved parking signs shortly after further minimizing parking downtown. Watch and see.
$50,000 for a few vehicles to be in the shade doesn’t make sense. Seems like a lot of money wasted.
Looks cool but at least the sidewalk is in the shade and will stay cool, guess engineers don’t use a sun dial anymore
Why is this here then?
Who parks there that convinced the city to do this?
I love it, but, do it at ALL of the free parking. I don’t see why not.
Does anyone else know?
Please advise.
Thank you.
You really have to wonder if the people that approve stuff like this give any consideration at all to the optics of something like this? What exactly is the thought process? Or do they just not care?
Build a 3-story garage there with underground tunnels that come up in a wide area around downtown