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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
I think a regional planing committee should stir things up (in a big city event to make the most waves and be logistically feasible) by saying, sure.. we'll pay to use your arena but we're gonna tell everyone not to park at the venue and when you don't make money from parking maybe you'll make Arena include parking lot in your costing.
Also, Ricky.. what do you mean by "Buy out the lots" Do you mean a guess of how many cars are going to use the lots, or the full capacity. Because i have never see a parking garage at a FIRST event completely full with the exception of the one in New Haven in 2002 but that parking lot was small to begin with and was not a parking lot designed just for the venue, but parking for the city of New Haven as well.
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Your first point is what our idea was this year, the parking charge our venue wanted was not even close to a good price, so we decided that teams would be ok on their own and find the cheaper parking around the arena. Many of them did and the $12 dollar lot that the venue owned across the street was mostly empty the whole time.
For the whole buy out the lot thing, what I meant is the price that our venue wanted
per car to go into their lot was outrageous. And this lot wasn't a garage or anything, and it was almost the perfect size that it would have fit most of the cars and busses coming to this event, which is why we were looking at the whole thing.
It is just something we could not get done in our negotiations this year.