Demolition suggestion: Acadian Lines building
Posted by Lamespotting on 01 Jun 2009 at 04:11 am | Tagged as: Fredericton, landuse
This large eyesore is mostly used for indoor parking. Sure, the bus terminal is functioning, but it’s an awful bus terminal. There’s no canopy to shelter you from the rain, no proper baggage handling system, bags are just left on the parking lot for anybody to pick up. Inside, the waiting area is spartan with uncomfortable plastic seating. The front of the building has been recently renovated and looks fairly nice, yet there are still remnants of when it was a gas station.
This building (and surrounding surface parking lots) easily take up over half a city block. This lot is larger than the Centennial Building’s lot so we can imagine something larger than the Centennial Building going in here.
I’ve heard another parking garage is slated for this lot, although I’m not exactly sure exactly where it would be placed.
I think the City should encourage development beyond parking for this prime real estate. Perhaps a parking complex on Brunswick to serve commercial/residential development on King St would be the way to go.
The parking garage may just be the first phase. I would expect that a large development would have to have a parking structure of its own. I doubt that a parking garage by itself would be financially viable as parking is really cheap downtown.
I’ll be keeping my eyes open for any news on this site. Hopefully the community can come together and insist that this site be developed properly. That way, it won’t turn out like Peel Plaza in Saint John.
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It’s going to be a huge parking lot with stores on the first floor.