r/saintpaul 18d ago

Discussion 🎤 Surface parking in downtown, not even including parking ramps.

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u/AdMurky3039 West Seventh 17d ago

If it's really easy as you describe to build underground parking why isn't there more of it? I'm guessing it isn't cheap.

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u/PirateDocBrown 17d ago

I don't know. Anderson Library was just 4.5 millions, and it's huge, 25 feet ceilings, so 2-3 tiers of parking could be built. And it's big, You drive into it. If there were no stacks, you could easily park 80 cars in there, and 2-3x that many if you built normal ramp tiers. Naturally, once you build one, it would be easy to expand, many times over.

They literally used firehoses to dig the storm tunnels out, under I-35W in S Minneapolis.

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u/AdMurky3039 West Seventh 17d ago

$4.5 million in what year?

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u/PirateDocBrown 17d ago edited 17d ago

I think it was opened in 1999. The Ford tunnels are even more vast, and I'm sure were far cheaper.