There are enough public and private parking spaces downtown to serve the new baseball stadium, but not close-in, the head of a national parking company told a Wichita advisory group.
Instead of a main parking lot right next to the ball park — the way it was at the now-demolished Lawrence-Dumont Stadium — parking for Wichita’s new Triple-A team will be a patchwork of existing public lots and garages, streetside parking, and office parking that is vacant during evenings and weekends.
That’s the analysis by Jeff Wolfe, president and CEO of The Car Park Inc., who briefed the city’s Transit Advisory Board about stadium parking Wednesday.
Walkability has been a significantly higher priority than parkability in planning the stadium, the future home of a Miami Marlins farm team now called the New Orleans Baby Cakes.
The overall goal is to create a pedestrian, bike and public-transit friendly business district with bars and restaurants anchored by the crowds drawn to the ball park.
(Read more: Wichita Eagle)