Underground parking mooted for Civic Park
AN underground car park would be built beneath Newcastle's Civic Park under a radical plan from Lord Mayor John Tate to ease the city's parking shortage.
Cr Tate will float in a lunchtime speech to the Newcastle Business Club today the idea of digging up and returfing Civic Park.
Predictions that the city's growing CBD will be thousands of car spaces short in the coming years have prompted the new thinking.
"There's a big demand for parking," Cr Tate said.
The lack of CBD parking is set to be compounded with the University of Newcastle's impending move into the city, new development and office tenancies, growth of City Hall and Civic Theatre business and a redesign of Laman Street that could shut out cars.
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