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As Downtown San Diego continues to grow -- Petco Park, new hotels,
apartments and condominiums -- parking problems also pop up.
Not just availability, but price.
Downtown's redevelopment is going great guns, so more people live and
work there, creating a crunch in some hot spots while other lots on the
fringes of the city core remain under used.
Also, residential developers have been snapping up parking lots
Downtown, reducing slots in high-use areas. All that has pushed rates
higher by about 15 percent in the past two years, said Paul Chacon, a
general partner with Five Star Parking.
The parking pinch has employers looking for ways to help workers with
the growing expense. Some rent spaces for employees. Others pay for
public transit passes to coax personnel to ditch their cars for trolleys
and trains.
One thing is certain: Parking is an issue in hiring and retaining
good employees in the Downtown core.
Map of Downtown Parking |
