The surface lot on State Street will close on May 19 so work can begin on the new parking garage. Photo
by Norman Schimmel
Pineapple Boulevard, Morrill Street, Rawls
Avenue and Adelia Avenue soon will be
restriped to create an additional 35 on-street
parking spaces, the release points out. In
addition, a new temporary agreement was
reached with BMO Harris Bank to allow the
public to use 12 parking spaces free of charge
within the BMO garage, located at Pineapple
Avenue and McAnsh Square, on weekdays
from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., the release says.
"Since the State Street Lot is very popular
on Saturday mornings" when the Sarasota
Farmers Market is under way, the POD has
been collaborating with Phil Pagano, execu-
tive director of the market, "to educate the
public about the upcoming closure and alter-
native parking areas," the release notes.
Construction of the State Street garage is
expected to take approximately 10 months,
with the facility scheduled to open in March
2015. Slightly fewer than 400 parking spaces
will be available to the public when the garage
is finished, the release adds, with retail on the
ground floor.
Anyone with public parking questions is
encouraged to contact the city's Parking
Operations Division at 954-7057. Updates
also will be available at SarasotaGov.com/
Parking and by following the POD on Twitter
@SRQParking.
Sarasota News Leader May 9, 2014 Page 86
