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April 18, 2012 at 3:39 pm #602929
HelperMonkeyParticipantshowed up for league bowling last night and the parking situation was about what you’d expect for a league night…except there was hardly anyone in the alley. It was apparently all TJ’s customers!! People who actually showed up to bowl had to park quite a ways away. Not fun when you’re hauling a couple of 20# balls. (heh heh) Anyway, if you’re shopping at Trader Joe’s, use the DESIGNATED parking and leave the street parking to West Seattle Bowl!
April 18, 2012 at 3:45 pm #755696
funkietooParticipantAre any of the street parking spots designated specifically for West Seattle Bowl?
The excitement of Trader Joe’s will slowly die down and parking may not be as much of a problem.
April 18, 2012 at 3:55 pm #755697
HelperMonkeyParticipantOh, I know they’re not designated. As much as it looks like a bowling alley/church parking lot, it is still a city street. It just seems a shame TJ’s provided all that parking and people aren’t using it. The bowling alley has been there for a long time, and really depend on having parking. Shame they can’t turn that HOLE into some sort of parking lot… ;)
April 18, 2012 at 4:58 pm #755698
HormelParticipantHelper Monkey,
I love West Seattle Bowl but for years they have had the luxury of parking 100% of their patrons on the neighborhood streets. At least Trader Joes is providing some spaces while WSB provides exactly how many off-street spaces?
Maybe it is time WSB reopened what looks like it’s existing parking garage below the bowling alley. I don’t know much about it but thought in the past they rented it to store Huling cars. Maybe someone who knows more about it could chime in?
If this is parking for the bowling alley I think the solution is already built. WSB may have been there a long time but I would guess that this garage was required by the land use code during expansion to provide parking stalls for their patrons.
April 18, 2012 at 5:22 pm #755699
JEMParticipantMy understanding regarding the underground garage at the bowling alley is that there is either a code/safety/accessablity issue with it and they are not allowed to use it for the public. They were able to rent it to Huling as “storage” and not parking…that is just my understanding as a long time bowler. I also agree that after a few weeks of TJ excitement it will get more reasonable.
April 18, 2012 at 8:30 pm #755700
DianeParticipantpeople are using the parking lots at Trader Joe’s; they’ve been packed; the street parking is overflow
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I had no idea there was a parking structure under West Seattle Bowl
April 18, 2012 at 9:24 pm #755701
schwaggyParticipantStupid Hole. Let’s not forget that the entire North end of this monstrosity used to be the bowling alley parking lot. Arrrrgh. Now the alley’s patrons take up our valuable street parking forcing some in our ‘hood to park their cars blocks away from their homes, especially so on League nights. This causes a chain reaction throughout the 39th – 42nd and Oregon area. Dunno really why I’m writing this other than the Hole is lame and anything would be better. Say… would Whole Foods reconsider moving in after the legal battle is concluded and something is built? A little competition for Trader Joe’s ;-)
April 18, 2012 at 9:26 pm #755702
KimberleyParticipantIs the parking for TJs even adequate for a store of that size? It seems completely packed each time I’m in the area. Street parking seems to be causing issues as well (people aren’t paying attention to the flow of traffic as they’re pulling out of spaces).
(Hi JEM!)
April 18, 2012 at 9:45 pm #755703
KBearParticipantKimberley, TJ’s won’t even consider a location unless it has inadequate parking. Also, the city won’t approve an application to build a grocery store in the Junction unless the parking is completely f***ed up. At least that’s what I heard.
April 18, 2012 at 11:47 pm #755704
DianeParticipantour new Trader Joe’s has tons more parking than Queen Anne, or Cap Hill
April 18, 2012 at 11:59 pm #755705
DBPMemberI just got back from TJ’s today, and guess what I found inside my shopping bag . . .
Bacteria
Yup. Hundreds of ’em.
And the store’s only been open, what? 3 days?!
I can’t say that I’m surprised by this development, but I must say I’m still disappointed.
April 19, 2012 at 12:19 am #755706
SKBMemberRegarding parking – we were there on Sunday afternoon… was quite busy with cars up & down street, yet we went to roof garage and found 6 empty spaces, score! BTW, that is the most cheerful parking garage we’ve ever seen and the man loved the design/construction of the stairs down to the store.
Regarding DPB’s comment – could you elaborate please? Being home w/ food poisoning at the moment is making me overly vigilant about unwanted microbes around…
April 19, 2012 at 12:26 am #755707
2 Much WhineParticipantI might be wrong, as is often the case, but I assume DBP is poking a little fun at the folks that believe that it is far better to use disposable plastic bags that end up littering our neighborhoods than it is to use reusable bags that usually sit, forgotten, in the trunk of our car. There are some that walk among us that are very afraid of these microbe harboring demons.
April 19, 2012 at 1:03 am #755708
casabobaMemberBacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria are indeed everywhere. Mind them no harm children.
April 19, 2012 at 1:10 am #755709
johnnyblegsMemberHormel: We must be neighbors. All this talk about lack of parking at West Seattle Bowl is VERY funny to me. I live literally across the street from the WS Bowl & the new TJs. Lack of parking on my street is not new. I’ve battled with it ever since the hole appeared and league night bowlers have to park up & down my street. It’s hard but I’ve accepted it. There seems plenty of parking to me, but what would i know. I don’t have to deal with it.
The impact on parking this past opening weekend was pretty minimal on the street; at least on the other side of Oregon. There was just the occasional car that parked close to my house. The lot & the garage are ALWAYS packed when I walk by so I think the street parking is justified. Give it a little while. Bowlers will get their precious parking spaces back; not that I have any sympathy :)
As for the garage…I brought this up when they dumped all this money into replacing the hardwoods on the lanes. Why not the garage too? Who knows.
April 19, 2012 at 1:31 am #755710
SKBMemberThanks for the clarification 2 Much Whine, haha!
April 19, 2012 at 4:39 am #755711
JoBParticipantDBP.. perhaps it is time to disinfect your bags?
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