Parking structures at 1200 4th St. and 1400 2nd St. will be demolished in accordance with a $1 million spending package approved by Santa Monica's City Council Tuesday night. As part of a contract with construction firm Morley Builders, two larger, "greener" structures will take their place. The new structures will incorporate solar power, ground floor retail, bike parking, and public restrooms. They will also increase capacity by 250 cars each.
The two structures, which are the smallest of the area's six city-owned structures, were built as part of the city's plan to attract downtown retailers by eliminating parking requirements. The arrangement has been extremely successful, especially at Third Street Promenade, where high-end retailers clamor to lease the pricey spots. It has also led to a dense, walkable downtown that isn't plagued by unsightly ground parking like so many other Southern California shopping districts. Long a practitioner of so-called smart parking, Santa Monica is also home to a new parking structure at its civic center, so innovative and handsome it has been featured in a spread of Architectural Record.
Also on the voting sheet Tuesday night was an option to increase the city's bandwidth to bolster WiFi hot spot coverage. With its small area and fat pockets, Santa Monica may well be the first Southern California municipality to offer citywide wireless coverage, so far a distinction claimed only by Google's Bay Area hometown of Mountain View.
The two structures, which are the smallest of the area's six city-owned structures, were built as part of the city's plan to attract downtown retailers by eliminating parking requirements. The arrangement has been extremely successful, especially at Third Street Promenade, where high-end retailers clamor to lease the pricey spots. It has also led to a dense, walkable downtown that isn't plagued by unsightly ground parking like so many other Southern California shopping districts. Long a practitioner of so-called smart parking, Santa Monica is also home to a new parking structure at its civic center, so innovative and handsome it has been featured in a spread of Architectural Record.
Also on the voting sheet Tuesday night was an option to increase the city's bandwidth to bolster WiFi hot spot coverage. With its small area and fat pockets, Santa Monica may well be the first Southern California municipality to offer citywide wireless coverage, so far a distinction claimed only by Google's Bay Area hometown of Mountain View.
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