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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
From optics it looks like the worst place to find parking in the city.
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Eh, I mean, there're lots of places around there with little or no usable parking in front. I think there are a few especially bad things about that location that make it challenging to operate a business there:
- it's at the very southeast corner of the retail areas along Kensington Road and 10th Street; the majority of the pedestrian traffic in the area is concentrated north and west of there, so little walk-in traffic,
- being right on Memorial makes that corner too busy. E.g. the last time I went there was when it was a bar—maybe "The Bottlehouse"...? Can't remember exactly anymore...—and the patio along the south side of the building was essentially useless. It was all the worst things about patios along 17th Ave: narrow, cramped, super-noisy...
- what parking there is immediately nearby is hard to get to! There's a CPA lot just behind the building, $2 for the entire evening, but you can only get to it from westbound Memorial. Except 4:00-6:00pm—primetime for people going out for dinner, e.g.—when you can't turn into that alley from Memorial! You have to go all the way around the block and enter the alley from 2nd Ave! There's the parkade in the condo building across that Julio's was in, but if you've gone that far west you might as well venture west on foot down Kensington Road/Crescent (the entrance to/exit from that parkade is only 10A Street anyway). There's also parking at the old fire hall on Memorial, kitty-corner from the Four20 location, which is only accessible from eastbound Memorial, and is annoying to use because it's farther from everywhere you'd want to go anyway, so it mostly sits empty.
- the building itself is long and skinny on the inside; it makes any business in there have to do some awkward space planning