Downtown Saskatoon parking could be tight with potential of new arena; public transit could be utilized
The city is looking to address a parking shortage that could be the result of several new proposed developments downtown.
Dan Willems, Director of Technical Services with the City of Saskatoon mentioned there is lots of parking at Saskatoon’s current facility, SaskTel Centre, which is home to the Western Hockey League ’s Saskatoon Blades and the National Lacross League ’s Saskatchewan Rush and has around 4,000 stalls.Story continues below advertisement
“When you think about an arena being an evening animation type facility where the events occur in the evening, lessons learned from Edmonton. A very similar example with a downtown arena. Their commercial parking and public available parking in downtown Edmonton was used quite a bit during the day, but before their arena moved downtown, it was a ghost town over there.
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