Several Main Street Parkville Association (MSPA) and Parkville Chamber of Commerce members have personally complained to me about the on-going problem of merchants on Main Street parking in front of their own stores, or even worse, in front of a neighbor's store The parking on Main Street is atrocious to begin with. One merchant estimated that on the stretch of Main between 1st and 2nd streets there was only one free parking space every 20 to 25 minutes, and that many of the occupied spaces were occupied by business owners' cars and trucks.
This issue is as important to some business owners as the signage issue, except in this case the city isn't the culprit. Come on folks leave the parking spaces for your customers and for your neighbor's customers. Be a good citizen.
Remember, there is ample parking in the city's lot and in English Landing. Main Street merchants have numerous places in which to park so that their customers are not inconvienced.
==JFK==
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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Parking spaces on Main Street
I hear alot of customers complain about there are never any parking spaces so they can run in and pick something up that may take five minutes. So they go on.
Some have even seen merchants and their personal take up the spaces, that really sends them a message that merchants do not need their business. So they go on spend $$$ else where.
Come on fellow merchants and personal lets show our customers we do care!
Lets say that there are about 35 spaces open for customers to use each and every day.
Now each space in one hour can service about two customers. So in eight hours that would be about 560customers a day coming and going.
On any day there are about 16spaces taken away from our customers. So in eight hours
256 times these spaces are not in use.
Now you who complain there is no one visiting your place of business, can see why now.
Lets be know as the Customer friendly Parkville. Who really do care!!! :)
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