Unfortunately , despite the fact that the new price tag is significantly less than when the Aronsohn cronies were running the show, this parking garage is still destined to become a financial disaster of major proportions. I predict that parking rates throughout the Village will skyrocket and parking times will be extended in an attempt to raise revenues. This will kill the restaurant business for sure, and maybe even some service businesses and retail stores. Unless the garage is filled to the brim, it won’t even break even. The only way to fill it is to force all commuters there. An operational and financial fiasco in the making. Just you wait and see
It simply won’t work due to parking psychology. The target market for the people who are supposedly in need of extra parking places are the shoppers and diners. These people simply won’t use a parking facility of this kind. First we have the shoppers. The reality is that there really is a declining shopping-in-Ridgewood demand. It’s not a Ridgewood thing but a national thing where people are changing their shopping habits, moving more and more to online, and when they do go brick and mortar, it’s big box places. As for diners, yes, there will always be the dining crowd, however, they will simply go to a different town to eat if they can’t find street, and more importantly, free parking.
This garage will be the equivalent of the Simpson’s monorail.
people up top do not give a dam about u and i . they will build it real big. oh, well.
I went to Country Curtains yesterday and was shocked to find a sign on the window stating that it had closed on April 22. Bring back the old hardware store! Garage is a gleam in the eye of most of the current council but they are wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s a mistake for which we will all pay for a long time. Since when does “At least it doesn’t occupy half the street” count as an argument for building something?
Ridgewood on notice Stupid is as Stupid does..go see a Prefab high elevation parking contraption.scandalous architecture
Great graphic of the new blockhouse house of detention pre fab parking blight for out of town train commuters.At least on the current walk to cottage place surface lot they have to window shop or stop at rite aid for some groceries or drub store items.The limited access roads to this location and the peak unloading of this transit village concrete monolith makes it a non starter for safety and village community impact perspective.And no property owners don’t have to take of the cost risk of
this non performing asset to please the store and restaurant owners issues which are proven to be self inflicted and demographically induced..
Amazon,free delivery,less town local shopping for day to day needs.Building this parking facilities will just bring more train commuters and will only double our traffic and quality of life issues for our local communities.Out of towners visit patterns are not the homeowners problem business owners.We have had enough Tax increases and mismanagement costs placed on our tax due Bill each quarter.
Let the developers pay for a solution ..don’t hold your breath as they over build hammering the community with traffic and cost impacts to the taxpayers
and evacuate with the cash within 3 years of the projects completion.Just say no.
If we voted against having the garage……why must this continue?
I’ll park in the garage, hope it is built.