Parking garages are generally cold places that remind you of Watergate, zombie attacks, life after people, or Soviet Union apartment blocks. This garage is no different. It is a subterranean, three-level car storage unit, and a relatively short one where the antenna on your Suburban may scrape against the piping and ductworks. Top level green; midlevel yellow; bottom level blue.
So why the five stars? I parked here with a reserved spot and a parking card for years and years. Now that I have to chance it with no pass, I realize how awesome this place is. Center of town. Near everything. Decent prices for a parking garage. So great is this place, that despite its cavernous size, it is regularly full on weekdays very early. People going to the Statehouse, the Riffe, the Rhodes, Fifth Third, the Ohio Theatre, or any number of hotels choose to park here even though those other building have their own garages. How come? This place has a 24 hour Ohio Highway Patrol presence and those blue lighted panic buttons. Pretty cool.
The state does some things correctly, and this garage is one of those things. read more