Livery Lot Gets (Temporary) Facelift

Tom Giffey |

Said parking lot, mid-facelift. Photo: RCU
Said parking lot, mid-facelift. Photo: Royal Credit Union

A newly paved, temporary parking lot built to accommodate downtown drivers has opened at the corner of North Barstow and Wisconsin streets. The lot, roughly across from The Livery, is on a vacant property owned by the city Redevelopment Authority. The dirt-covered patch has been used for parking for several years, but drivers should find it much easier to use now. The paved lot was built by the city for about $200,000 as part of an agreement with JAMF Software, which plans to build a new office building on what is now a parking lot next to RCU headquarters. While the new lot has a gated entry system, the city won’t turn it on until next year when the JAMF building is complete (unless RCU employees have parking problems in the meantime). Once the JAMF building is done, the lot will be reserved for JAMF and RCU employees during business hours. At other times, however, it will be open to anyone visiting the neighborhood or nearby Phoenix Park. Eventually, the city hopes to build a larger parking facility where the post office now stands, and the so-called Livery lot will make way for new buildings.