Above are four examples of parking available in one shopping center. They were all taken in the Edgewood Shopping District, the “live-work-play” development on Edgewood Avenue, just past Little Five Points. The first picture is a view of the basic parking lot commonly found outside big box retailers. There are rows and rows of parking spaces for people to leave their car and travel into one of the many stores that surround the parking lot. There are the customary cart corrals that take up a few spaces here and there, but as you can see there is ample parking for anyone coming to shop on a weekend afternoon. Also, if you look closely to the upper left hand corner, you can see an arch (several of which appear throughout the larger lot) that was meant to deter large vehicles and tractor-trailers from entering the parking lot.
The second picture is of an above-ground parking deck that sits between two of the larger stores in the shopping center. It was designed to blend in with the buildings around it, making it less obtrusive and unpleasant looking. It has the same brick façade and stucco accents that the stores in the shopping center sport, but one can clearly tell it is a parking deck. The stairs can be seen in the tower-like structure in the middle and there is a large sign (partially visible on the right-hand side) that says “PARKING”.
The third picture is of below-ground parking. There were approximately 15 cars in this lot at the time of the picture, all of which could have been easily accommodated in the large parking lot or parking deck pictured above. This is likely just a cooler (temperature wise) place to park your car on a hot day. It may also come in handy Black Friday, the most feared day for any retailer, when thousands of angry men and women swarm into stores at 6am and begin to cross things off their Christmas list.
The final picture is of off-street parking found near the boutique-style shops that sit between the two nodes of big box retailers in the Edgewood shopping center. This harkens back to the days when you would drive to Main Street, park your car right outside the store and go talk with your neighbors in the general store. There a far fewer of these spots than can be found in any of the parking lots/decks in the rest of the shopping center.
The second picture is of an above-ground parking deck that sits between two of the larger stores in the shopping center. It was designed to blend in with the buildings around it, making it less obtrusive and unpleasant looking. It has the same brick façade and stucco accents that the stores in the shopping center sport, but one can clearly tell it is a parking deck. The stairs can be seen in the tower-like structure in the middle and there is a large sign (partially visible on the right-hand side) that says “PARKING”.
The third picture is of below-ground parking. There were approximately 15 cars in this lot at the time of the picture, all of which could have been easily accommodated in the large parking lot or parking deck pictured above. This is likely just a cooler (temperature wise) place to park your car on a hot day. It may also come in handy Black Friday, the most feared day for any retailer, when thousands of angry men and women swarm into stores at 6am and begin to cross things off their Christmas list.
The final picture is of off-street parking found near the boutique-style shops that sit between the two nodes of big box retailers in the Edgewood shopping center. This harkens back to the days when you would drive to Main Street, park your car right outside the store and go talk with your neighbors in the general store. There a far fewer of these spots than can be found in any of the parking lots/decks in the rest of the shopping center.
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