Reader says CBD will not thrive without Parking
Yes, horrible isn’t it that someone wants to improve the parking situation in Ridgewood. Parking has been problematic in town for 100 years and is one of the largest difficulties for businesses in the CBD (coupled with the parking Nazis.)
I recently moved to Summit NJ, and this town is THRIVING. One of the main differences? Parking. Everywhere. Find a spot, park for hours or all day, pay via your Parkmobile app on your smartphone. But we would prefer to have constant parking problems in town so we can still view the beauty of the old garage on Franklin Avenue. Ridgewood is dying. Summit knows how to run a town.
I think the cost per square foot has more to do with it than parking,
No doubt about it ! That,and getting the landlords to get reasonable with the rents.
Stores are closed and empty… plenty of parking spaces in the current environment….
If the property owners in the CBD would return some of their profits by sprucing up the buildings that would help. Have you even looked behind Starbucks? Disgusting. Garbage, litter, and and a pot-holed parking lot.