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At North Capital & K St there is a large vacant lot used by MegaBus and Gonzaga High School. This is within the NoMA neighborhood.

The land owned by Gonzaga is the blacktop parking lot on that map and is used by students for parking. That lot is probably one of the few utilized lots, as the school's parking permit requires a carpool of at least 3 people to park, for students. Faculty/staff I'm not sure about, although I know many of the faculty drive students home as part of a carpool deal as well. Part of the condition of Gonzaga acquiring the land, so the stories go, is that the school is not allowed to use it as a surface parking lot, although they are presently doing so. I believe there are tentative plans to do something with it, but what I'm not so sure.

To the west of that lot, and appearing to be dirt / grass on this photo, is also a blacktop, and currently used by Megabus for their general operations. This is a metro-accessible location and seems exactly where Megabus would want to operate. They have no permanent structures there.

The northern part, also appearing dirt / grass, is also a blacktop. This lot is separated from the other two lots by an alley with chainlink on either side of the alley. This is a daily parking lots, typical of the others. This lot also supports people who drive to the church across L St to the north.

by Xavier on Jun 6, 2011 7:42 pm • link • report