College Station parking garage opens for business

The $8.69 million garage at 420 W. College St. has four upper floors with 393 parking spaces. It has 35,000 square feet of first-floor retail space and is located just south of the College Station entertainment and retail complex, now under construction to the north on a city block bordered by Olive and College streets and Campbell and Market avenues. The complex’s anchor tenant, Hollywood Theaters, is set to open next summer.

A few odds and ends remain to be finished in the garage, but all parking functions are complete, according to Phil Broyles, city assistant director of public works operations. Broyles said parking is free for the next few months while the city looks at pricing options.

The city was the project developer, DeWitt & Associates was the general contractor, and parking facilities planner Desman Associates was the architect of record and structural engineer. Butler, Rosenbury & Partners Inc. was the façade architect, and Malone Finkle Eckhardt & Collins Inc was the mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer.

Broyles said the garage should help alleviate downtown’s parking crunch that worsened when the College Station development began, eliminating 200 surface lot spaces.

Meanwhile, work continues on schedule on the Heer’s Car Park, just northeast of the College Station garage. Broyles said the city is targeting an April 1 opening for the 143,000-square-foot, 375-space parking deck.[[In-content Ad]]