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February 2024 by Fax Machine
This is my reserved parking. There are many like it, but this one is mine.My reserved parking is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.My reserved parking, without me, is useless. Without my reserved parking, I am useless. I must park my car true. I must park straighter than my neighbor who is trying to take my spot. I must park before he parks. I will …My reserved parking and myself know that what counts in this daily routine is not the ease we find, the distance from our destination, nor the time we save. We know that it is the availability that counts. We will be available…My reserved parking is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its boundaries, its lines, its surface, its signs, and its visibility. I will ever guard it against the ravages of unauthorized use and damage as I will ever guard my legs, my arms, my eyes, and my heart against damage. I will keep my reserved parking clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will …Before God, I swear this creed. My reserved parking and myself are the defenders of my convenience. We are the masters of our daily routine. We are the saviors of my sanity.So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but peace!!
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August 2023 by Kat Nelson
This is the dumbest parking lot. $25 to park?? This is St Paul, not Chicago. If I’m paying $25 the experience should involve convenience and ease of access and this was anything but. Once you park and exit the ramp, they lock you out and you have to call a number on a telephone like it’s 1998 and then wait for like 5 minutes until security comes and opens the door (can’t you put a camera by the door and buzz us in??). The route back to the garage is not marked and you have to wander around until you find it. The barrier arm was broken and held together with literal duct tape. Strange goings-on. Get it together, man!
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June 2022 by Jeff Reinhart
Don't park here during events. You can't get back in after 6 pm unless you sneak through the garage doors or get a resident to let you in. Any posted phone numbers to call are disconnected. Thanks to the kind sir who pointed me on the right direction.
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December 2021 by Carolyn A.
Would give zero stars if could. Unfortunately, my apartment building uses this dump for resident overflow parking as our lot has a huge wait list, so I'm very familiar with this place. Construction is ongoing, so MAYBE it will eventually be nicer. I have never seen a construction crew finish things and then rip them up so many times. Parking ramp filled with dust, large piles of concrete debris, and now being paved, so the already difficult task of finding an empty spot is worse. Lot is also scary, with NO attendant, non existent security, and the number for security posted by the one elevator working is a disconnected number. I was given actual number for Cray Plaza ramp offices to call for an urgent issue, and no one answered at 3 in the afternoon or EVER returned my call. I was reduced to chasing around the one guy I found emptying trash for help after searching the place for ANYONE. Electronic gates frequently don't work though repaired repeatedly, so pray you can get in to park or get out when you want. I have had to leave my child waiting at school for over an hour 3 times in last two months and been late for at least 2 other appointments because gates or doors were not opening. For a couple of months they just left doors and gates wide open as broken, so dark structure to begin with was even scarier, as multiple scary, mentally unstable men just wandered in. ( I'd say talking in an animated fashion to and arguing with people who aren't there along with slamming things around and ripping your clothes off at random constitutes unstable). People get into Cray Plaza and sleep near the elevator in parking ramp, pee on the carpet in Plaza, or sleep near trash cans in Cray. This weeks delight was having my child observe police arrest and handcuff a man in front of us who was just one more who wandered into the building and parking ramp (we've seen him both places). The plaza and ramp are adjacent to Mears Park, so by 9:00 every night there's also a regular homeless presence, and many decide to come in to the building or attached ramp to get warm, or sleep there (hey, I would in their position). The problem is again the not knowing who is using or mentally unstable, and having to navigate both the scary ramp and the dark Plaza to get to my apartment. Did I mention the Plaza now dims the lights in the halls every afternoon and evening, so an already scary walk is even less safe? Then there are the connections to the Skyway, which now close at 10 pm and MANY times are closed randomly by 9 pm, which means to get to my building which is connected by skyway to Cray Plaza, I frequently have to walk outside at night by myself or with my child to get into my building. Not what I signed up for when I signed a lease. Not safe, as the most unstable hang out on 5th street near Mear Park at night. I try to avoid going anywhere ever after 8 pm for this reason, but sometimes I have to and I resent not being able to go where I want when I want to. I have a key card because of my apartment building's arrange my with Cray; if you'd like to pay to park there is a credit card machine as only way to pay since no attendant. Almost every day someone can't get key card to work to get in or out, so those of us who've been parking here longer regularly have to tell them to try the key card twice, because if gate or door IS working, you usually have to scan key card fast twice as hardly ever works first time. Have I said enough for you to realize that this dark, forbidding, poorly run and unsafe parking ramp is the last place you should EVER park if you have any choice whatsoever? Unless you enjoy scary, dark places, have a death wish, don't care if doors are working so you can ever leave, don't particularly care if the ceiling (or all that loose concrete) on a very shaky ramp falls in and crushes you, and aren't particular about the way you die? Run, my friend, run. If you are kind and so inclined, say many prayers for those of us forced to park here (at least until I move out of my
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June 2021 by Erik Hadden
Don’t come into this ramp, I am still stuck here with a long line of cars, phone numbers all go to voicemail…
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April 2021 by Angela Mertz
Beautiful building and did you know they once had a theatre inside! Bring it back!
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April 2020 by Elaina Lordan
The Sibley Street door is never actually unlocked ont weekends which means I am incapable of actually accessing my car. If that door is supposed to be unlocked then make sure it is U N L O C K E D
