PARKING GARAGES WE LOVE (AND HATE)
University of Houston's one-stop shop parking garage: Did you bring the drycleaning?
Editor's note: Houston is a city of cars, but parking garages get short shrift. We're out to change that by highlighting the prettiest — and ugliest — structures in town.
Sure I go to University of Houston-Downtown, but I won't hate on the University of Houston's one-stop shop Welcome Center parking garage. This five floor parking garage is more than just a spot to park your car (such an out-dated, limiting notion).
Instead, this parking garage is wrapped around a welcome center on the first floor where admissions, financial aid and campus advisors all have space. All the while, there are shops and restaurants that are sure to cater to hungry students, especially if they've been waiting in line (there is even a dry cleaners and the only McAlister's deli inside the Beltway).
With elevators and stairwells that are glass encased and 1,500 no-reserved spaces (no elitism here!) this certainly is a safe and beautiful parking garage — and a pricey one. The building cost $25.8 million.
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