The city will look into the feasibility of building a new garage downtown that could help alleviate parking problems in the Scottsdale Arts District that gallery owners have complained about for years.
After hearing from Legacy Gallery owner Jinger Richardson and other gallery owners, Councilwoman Suzanne Klapp asked City Manager Jim Thompson to look into adding two levels of above-ground parking to the city-owned lot on 1st Avenue between Scottsdale Road and Marshall Way.
“My goal is that I want to maintain a strong working relationship with business owners everywhere in Scottsdale and that means that I talk to them about their challenges for them to remain in business,” Klapp said. “My conversations with those people in that area…has been parking and it’s been a problem for years.”
