Bay Hills Parking Gets Revamp in New Plan
Additional parking spots would also be established along the front of stores such as City Dock Coffee and George's Restaurant.
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The shopping center along College Parkway would get a total of seven additional parking spots along storefronts in an overhaul of the site's parking plan from the site's owners, which incorporates the new proposed Rite-Aid building.
The Broadneck Development Corporation, which owns the College Parkway Center, formerly known as the Bay Hills Shopping Center, has contracted an engineering team to design a new layout for the center.
The new layout accommodates the proposed new location of Rite-Aid, which plans to move out of the center into a free-standing building in the corner of the parking lot, under the proposed plan. This new, 14,600 square-foot Rite-Aid would replace the existing M&T Bank building. The bank would then move in to a 3,000 square-foot portion of Rite-Aid's current spot in the center.
The new building takes up a large portion of the existing parking lot. In order to make up for displaced parking spots, additional parking would be established along the front of stores such as City Dock Coffee and George's Restaurant, and in the rear of the building for employees, under the proposed plan.
The through lane would not be narrowed as a result, as existing parking will be moved further back.
According to the plan, existing parking includes 432 spaces, and the new parking would include 439 spaces.
Do you think the new plan will work?
paul cain
8:14 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
this insection will be a mess if this goes thru, accidents, traffic, etc.
D. Frank Smith
8:15 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Care to elaborate? I'm not sure the intersection will be much different at all. But for people parked in front of shops, pulling out into the through lane could be a little treacherous at first, until people get used to it.
Maureen Walsh Higgins
8:50 am on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Marked parking spaces in front of the stores would eliminate the annoying way people park in the fire lane now
KC
12:47 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
As people already park in the fire lane and next to the spots at the ends of the rows this isn't so much creating new spaces just going along with the illegal and dangerous parking that is already commonplace.
Greg Barber
9:04 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
I beg to differ- it is creating new spaces that are head in, not parallel like as "just going to run in" shoppers park. If there was a fire lane for all of these years, clearly marked and punishable by a fine and towing, how is it now "legal and acceptable" simply because the developer and center owner want to put in a behemoth Rite Aid to make up for poor management and empty stores? Let's address the parking in the back of the building- how will owners enforce employees parking or not parking in the back of the center in these new spaces? Are employees to enter these buildings thru the back doors creating a security risk- especially when it is dark? It is equally as absurd to think that an employee who works in the middle of the center will walk the entire distance around to the front of the center to enter the building- another safety risk. These spaces are for the sole purpose of meeting a metric based on spaces per tenant.
Grandy A
9:16 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
And M&T's drive-thru lanes will certainly be convenient. WAIT! Where will they be?!?!?! Please don't tell us that all ATM transactions will have to be inside a lobby of some sort ..... Also, delivery trucks assuredly won't double-park in front. By the looks of the plan, they'll double-park in the back!!!
Greg Barber
10:51 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
M&T drive thru is proposed in the parking lot directly in front of O'Laughlins extending to the empty Wild Goose store
Grandy A
2:11 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Thanks for that info, but it is not clear from the plan view (even after enlarging) that a drive-thru is to be located where you say. Looks as if parking spaces are shown there. Perhaps the Broadneck Development Corp would be so kind as to respond to everyone's concerns.
Linda Bonnett
12:38 pm on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Since I am handicapped I am very interested in the drive thru ATM. I asked a bank employee and the Arnold Preservation Council about my concerns. They assured me the drive thru would be part of the design. However, the current photo of the plan does not show it. The M&T bank in Severna Park doesn't have a drive thru either.