Alpharetta OKs downtown parking deck

The City Center parking structure across from Alpharetta City Hall is the downtown area’s largest deck, completed in 2014 with 450 spaces. The City Council has approved plans for a new deck to the west on Milton Avenue. CITY OF ALPHARETTA

The City Center parking structure across from Alpharetta City Hall is the downtown area’s largest deck, completed in 2014 with 450 spaces. The City Council has approved plans for a new deck to the west on Milton Avenue. CITY OF ALPHARETTA

The Alpharetta City Council has approved plans for a downtown parking deck for Milton Avenue west of Roswell Street in the downtown area.

After discussion about the growing demand for parking downtown, council members Monday approved a contract with the Christman Co. to build a deck with three levels and about 190 spaces, for $5.9 million; and a fourth level with 73 spaces for an additional $983,000.

The council in February adopted a plan that called for two new downtown decks, on Milton and on Old Roswell Street. That decision followed six months of debate on future downtown parking.

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