From the 7/3/06 Dayton Business Journal:

 

 

Parking Problem

Officials planning to add parking spaces in Oregon District

Dayton Business Journal - June 30, 2006

by Yvonne Teems

DBJ Staff Reporter

 

A community-wide effort is underway to tackle the lack of parking in the Oregon District.

 

The Oregon District Business Association is in talks with the city of Dayton, CityWide Development Corp. and the Oregon Historic District Society to raise funds and exchange ideas about how to make parking more accessible to patrons of Fifth Street's businesses.

 

While about 200 spots open up after business hours to accommodate drinkers and diners, more parking around the clock is needed, business owners say.

 

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What a sad, sad commentary on Dayton. 

 

Also, has anyone here noticed how 5th Street in the Oregon never was really completely developed, as there are still a number of vacant storefronts and buildings on it....this was the case in 1988 when I moved here and it's still the case today.

 

 

 

I believe they are talking about parking garages and not demolishing any existing buildings.  I cannot see what they would demolish, as the rest of the places are occupied that are adjacent to the lots.  Unless they want to demolish Wiley's...

I was thinking of the problem of people not wanting to walk a few blocks to the 5th Street strip because they want parking practicaly next door or are afraid to walk in the city after dark. 

 

There are times I've had to park a bit further than just a block or two beyond Fifth, but parking was not that far away...usually out beyond the Gym Club near Dayton Towers, or out around Patterson towards the library, or off of Wayne

 

An those whining Oregon residents, who have been whining since I moved here in 1988, whining probably ever since they moved in and gentrified the neighborhood.  One thinks they would be happier in a century house in Germantown or Miamisburg instead of in the heart of a city next to a big nightclub district.

 

But its this uncompromising suburban mentality/fear of the city thing that just annoys me sometimes.

 

 

Oh trust me, it annoys me too.

Ditto the above.  And some additional parking would do nothing but help the area (as long as there is little or no demo).

Well, you know how demo-happy Dayton is. 

 

I  doubt there is going to be any new parking garages.  They can be pretty expensive, running between $5,700 to $8,000 - $9,000 per space, depedning on how many levels the garage and how large the site is.  I'm not sure the city has any money for this.

 

The re-orientation or better marketing of that big garage by the Neon, as what was mentioned in the article, is probably what they will be doing.

They need to tear down that horrendous Arby's and build some sort of lot there.