MOTOR PARKING

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 53, 26 November 1929, Page 10

MOTOR PARKING

TEN-STORY BUILDING PLANNED NEW WELLINGTON VENTURE One of the most interesting company registrations in Wellington in recent months is that of Wellington Motor Parking Stations, Limited, which has just been registered with a capital of £lOO 000. The provisional directors are Messrs. E. W. Hunt, D. J. McGowan A. G. Whitcombe, and J. H. Miles. The company has acquired a central city site. The site has a frontage of 70 feet to Johnston Street, and a depth of 170 feet, which carries it through to Waring Taylor Street, where the company has acquired the property recently owned by J. C. Hutton, Ltd., with frontages to that street and Featherston Street. Part of the latter building will be demolished to make room for the new parking building, which will have a frontage' of 60 feet to Featherston Street. The area acquired will give a floor space of 13,000 feet on each story. Plans have been prepared for a building embodying the most modern practice in such structures. It will be of ten storys, and will be a steel frame and reinforced concrete building, and provision will be made for the parking and garaging of some 500 or more cars. The building will be provided with electric lifts, and also ramps which will give access to the floors which will be “staggered”-—that is to say, each story will have two floors, one 4 feet 6 inches above the other. Ample provision will be made for cleaning and washing, and other services for car owners.