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Parking: The Inconvenience Temporary…

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…The Improvement Permanent. That was on the big signs I saw all over when I was growing up in New Jersey as. Well, improvement has arrived on King William Street.

Beginning Monday, August 9, King William Street will be closed between S. St. Mary’s and Washington Street. That’s the entire block in front of our building. According to the project manager it will be closed for “2 weeks or so” which we translate into 3-4 weeks in human time.

Ah, why you ask! They are undergrounding the utilities around King William Park. This phase will prepare the “infrastructure” for all that. There will be other street closures and trucks and wires and cables for awhile. So bear with us.

Oh, and while you’re down at the space get lunch next door at The Filling Station. They have the best sandwiches in town. All fresh for less than fast food. John is looking forward to a precipitous drop in his lunch business when the street is closed.

Parking Alternatives

Where to park?

  • Our Parking lot at S. St. Mary’s and Madison (around the corner)
  • Further down King William Street across from the park.
  • Turner Street, at the end of the park

You could also:

  • Ride your bike
  • Take the Bus
  • Carpool (one less car to park)

NOTE: You know those concrete barriers that they put on highways while they’re under construction? The industry term for them is “Jersey barriers.” That’s right, invented in New Jersey. I’m just saying.

What's the Deal with Parking?!

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I’m going to use a little Spidey sense here and guess that when you come downtown you dread the cost of parking. Is that you?

Well, one cool thing about C4 Workspace is that our parking is FREE! Not $10! Not $8! Not even $5! FREE!  How do we do it? Well, we have nothing to do with it actually.

We are out of the main downtown parking melee, thank goodness. But for you skeptics, here’s the deal.

We have four parking options:

  • Out in front – We have a free, non-metered, 2 hour zone on the street in front of us. We spoke to Camelia the Parking Enforcement agent for our area. Her main beat is the Courthouse and when she is here she is looking for scofflaws (3 or more tickets) not parking violations. (Her supervisor sends her over here just before her lunch break when things are slow at the Courthouse.) She is not in the area long enough to write parking tickets. She DOES have a cool Tricorder thingie that reads your VIN number; we think it has GPS (and maybe a phaser built in.) Debbie and I park in front everyday, all day and have never gotten a  ticket. So, don’t sweat it.
  • Around the park – There is both free 2 hour and no limit street parking around the King William Park triangle. The no limit spaces are occupied by 8 a.m. though by, we think, workers at the courthouse.
  • Around the corner – There is free, no limit street parking down the block on Turner Street.
  • In our parking lot – Yes, we have a FREE parking lot! We have limited spaces in the shared parking lot around the other corner at Madison and S. St. Mary’s. It’s a pleasant stroll past the storefronts on S. St. Mary’s. While you’re walking you can window shop for that perfect trinket at Blink or Tres Rebeccas. We would like to reserve the parking lot spaces for Full Time Desk residents but since most of us park in front there are spaces open.

So, that’s the deal. Parking is FREE. And most spaces are closer to the front door than you’ll ever be at the mall or at a downtown office.

Did we mention we have FREE parking?