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Ryan McMahon, City Center executive director, poses in front of the parking garage off Maple Avenue, across the street from the center. A foot bridge takes pedestrians directly to the center.
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By Susan Elise Campbell
\nAfter a long wait, the Saratoga City Center\u2019s 610-space downtown parking lot between Maple Avenue and High Rock is set to open.
\nRyan McMahon, City Center executive director, recently took a drive through the entire garage, top to bottom, the first non-construction person to do so.
\n\u201cIt feels good to get this going,\u201d he said.
\nAt one time the convention and events venue was going to build a 750-space garage on its own, but after some years of negotiations and design changes, construction started in September 2019 in partnership with the City of Saratoga Springs.
\n\u201cWe have great partners in the city,\u201d McMahon said. \u201cAll five commissioners voted unanimously before the last election. We could not do this without a strong community partnership.\u201d
\nThe grand opening was will take place at the end of October.
\nA foot bridge connects the garage with the City Center above Maple Avenue. The updated design has a glass span making it \u201calmost invisible\u201d from some angles, McMahon said. More important, a bridge removes the danger of walking across the street, he said.
\nMcMahon said City Center was losing business due to the lack of adequate parking. Not only will the new garage help grow its business, but other downtown businesses will benefit as well from a paid-parking facility.
\nThe final design is not the ordinary parking garage. Every floor is flat, which allows it to be used as a venue for such activities as the Spa City Farmers\u2019 Market, which can winter there this year if they chose, he said.
\n\u201cConstruction was running only a month behind when the pandemic hit,\u201d said McMahon. \u201cThe precast facility in Vermont was shut down due to the coronavirus and even though the garage is an infrastructure project, all manufacturing was on hold.\u201d
\nCity Center staff did not experience an interruption coming into the office because of the construction project, he said. That was an advantage for McMahon.
\n\u201cIf the building were unoccupied for a long time, problems would come up with the plumbing and HVAC system,\u201d he said.
\nMcMahon said there is an increase in events being planned for 2021 and beyond, \u201cahead of where we are normally booking.\u201d
\nMeanwhile he is trying to book event presenters that will be \u201csimulcast out\u201d to viewers. \u201cWe contract the simulcasting rather than keep the technology in-house, because it changes so quickly,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cWhen the garage opens and more people are allowed into the City Center, we will see how much of a draw the garage and walking bridge are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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