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Construction about to begin on third Disney Springs parking garage
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I remember the days when some claimed that they would never build garages in the DTD area. Fun times.
This seems like the best opportunity yet for them to provide slots for employees with electric cars to have complimentary recharge stations. If they agree to also allow their vehicles to be used for back-up power. Win-win.
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↩ replying to jt04It would take an awful lot of cars to power DS, and i'd think that would be bad for the batteries.
Not sure how many disney employees or other retail employees at DS can afford electric cars on a retail salary
as someone said awhile back this garage could be an opportunity for tesla charging as the other garages have regular electric vehicle charging
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↩ replying to jt04You might see four ChargePoint operated bays like in the other garages.
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↩ replying to mm121I was thinking more as a source for emergency lighting power while back up generators fire up. Something like that.
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↩ replying to MotherOfBirdsJust an additional data point on the need (or lack thereof) for the third garage. Tonight at 7:30 pm, lime and orange were full and the surface parking on the same side of BVD was also full. They were directing people to the surface lot across BVD where there were a few spots left. So they'll get use out of the third garage on some days.
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↩ replying to AJH219There are so many cars constantly coming and going, it is impossible for them to say it it is full. Between faulty sensors and the flow of patrons it is hard to believe.
On my last visit I had the pleasure of parking in the lot across the street, and to make things more fun, that lot was almost full.
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I've gone to the Orange garage a few nights when its been marked "full" and been able to get a spot on the top deck pretty easily. It might take some circling though if you go for a lower deck.
The "full" sign usage is likely certainly deter this kind of behavior though, otherwise there would be too many people trying to circle the decks.
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↩ replying to TimeTripI've done the same thing, I'd say they throw up the FULL sign when the garage is maybe at least 80-85% full. They'd certainly get some good mileage out of a third garage.
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↩ replying to bhg469They could also have the sign set to say full at a certain percentage to help alleviate the amount of guests just randomly driving around hoping for a spot. Parked cars are people that could be shopping or dining.
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has any construction work started on this yet?
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Permit was filed today for the construction of the garage. Expiration date is 1/1/2019. Total cost, $58.5 million.
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↩ replying to AJH219Does it look something like this?
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I remember when people claimed Disney would never build garages in the area.