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Sarasota News Leader October 25, 2013 Page 54 right to build 10 stories along Main Street, but "The last thing you worry about when you go we maintained downtown's scale and brought to a mall is parking," said Simon. "But it's the in high-end retailers," he said. "What we've first thing when you go downtown." done on Lemon Avenue has been a catalyst." He is concerned the Benderson mall will be Looming in Simon's mind is the opening in one open a full year before the city can open a year of a major shopping center off University parking garage on State Street. "I gave them Parkway and Interstate 75, University Town four years, but it was all pie in the sky to [the Center. The Benderson Development Co. proj- commissioners]. I don't believe any of their ect will be a regional complex the firm hopes [construction] timelines," Simon told The to see attract customers from a wide area. Sarasota News Leader. An engineer's drawing shows how parking spaces could be allocated to the garage levels. Image courtesy City of Sarasota