alternative use?

Driving north from Thomaston yesterday, I saw an interesting adaptive reuse of a bank building. (Note, photo quality is not great; I was stopped at a traffic light).  


Would you believe it is a Chinese restaurant?  Ok, that is a new one for me, and I have seen quite a lot of adaptive reuse in the past five years.

Parking

And in light of all this parking discussion, here are some prurient parking photos for your viewing pleasure!  Innovative, car park designs . . . Prurient Parking Photographs

Government WORKING!

Yesterday was a very busy one filled with all kinds of unexpected information and experiences.  From Central Georgia to Atlanta to Chattanooga, it was quite an 18 hours.

The most delightful and unexpected (other than family dinner), was our visit with the City of Atlanta Aviation Department's Vivica Brown, Deputy Assistant General Manager at Commercial Development, and Katie Stanciel, Director of Parking.  Working on a valuation analysis for them, we met to get details about income and expenses for parking.  Vivica has been very responsive and on-task about getting us information and introduced us to Katie for the details.  


This is no Mickey Mouse operation (no offense to Mr. Disney).  The Airport has more than 30,000 parking spaces - the only larger operation in the US Katie knew of is in Denver.  Their website has the following:

Parking - Domestic Terminal:

There are more than 30,000 public parking spaces at Hartsfield-Jackson, including over 10,000 in covered parking decks, 7,300 in Domestic North and Domestic South Economy parking lots, 1,300 in the Domestic Park-Ride Reserve lot and 7,800 in the Airport's Domestic Park-Ride lots. Special parking spaces are also provided for disabled passengers in each lot.

So what happened?


Lo and behold, we asked for all kinds of information and in under an hour, we had every bit!


This was IMPRESSIVE to say the least, and Katie did it with a beautiful smile and delightful attitude.  Kudos to the Aviation Department for hiring and keeping such fantastic people as Vivica and Katie.