Anyone who’s searched for parking in downtown Greensboro during the middle of a weekday knows that it’s a hit or miss proposition. When you get lucky, and happen to have enough quarters to feed the meter for the time you need, it probably makes your day. However, too often, finding a place to park means driving around in circles before settling on a spot a long walk from where you need to go.
Well, all that’s about to get worse because, effective Monday, July 3, Guilford County government will close the parking lot of the county-owned Truist Building at 201 W. Market St. in Greensboro due to construction and renovation.
The closing of the lot will displace a lot of users. The Truist Building holds the Guilford County Register of Deeds Office as well as other functions of Guilford County government, in addition to being a Truist Bank location. The affected lot serves county and bank clients and employees as well as those using the Old Guilford County Court House next door. In addition, the lot has some permanent spots for county work vehicles.
Foot traffic at the deeds office has risen in recent years due to the very popular passport service that Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen implemented.
Until the construction and renovations at the lot are complete, Register of Deeds’ customers will be able to park at the Greene Street Parking Deck and bring their parking ticket to the deeds office for validation.
That will serve the purpose but many Southern drivers famously do not like
parking decks with their tight spots and hairpin curves.
The Greene Street Parking Deck will also be more crowded than usual because, due to the construction, many county employees are also being instructed to park in that deck.
Work has already begun on some parts of the parking areas on the ground level lot and the underground lot that serve the Truist Building and surrounding area.
John what about work on the old jail
Pave the world and put up a parking lot.
There is a war being waged on the private automobile.
Yes!
Makes me grateful the local government is funding a free at point of use trolley for anyone to use. Will allow people to park further away but still get around downtown with ease.
John. Where’s the article about Skip favoring the prepared food tax.
Take out the Streetscape and tables along Elm Street and use the street for the intended purpose.
Parking in Greensboro is very easy. Generally a 5-10 minute walk at most to your destination. Downtown centers are not strictly for cars, plain and simple.
If you want to park directly in front of your destination “downtown” you should probably move to a town that literally does not have an actual downtown. If we continue to create a downtown space that only caters to cars, we might as well not even have a downtown. The entire appeal is walkability and density. If that doesn’t appeal to you, downtown areas are not your cup of tea, and that’s fine. Just don’t make it shitty for the rest of us.
Oh, what arrogance..! What self-centered pompousness! What priggishness !
Hey buddy, we are not trying to create a downtown that only caters to cars, we are trying to create a downtown that caters to PEOPLE, and 99% of them use cars to get there.
We are accustomed to the freedom, flexibility and convenience of the private automobile, and refuse to be treated like cattle in “public transportation” or get rained on as we cycle.
Latter day Leftist Luddites like you despise and resent the automobile, and that is why you are trying to make our use of it as inconvenient, frustrating, and costly as possible.
If easy accessibility to downtown, its businesses, and its offices aren’t your cup of tea, don’t buy a car – but don’t make it worse for the rest of us.