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ECONOMIC
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COMMENTS
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• Parking Study (' )
City's Economic Development Approach
• Yakima Airport
• Cascade Millsite Development and Infrastructure
• North First Street Improvements
• SOZO Sports
• New Aquatics Center
• Downtown Revitalization
KEY RETAIL PLAN FINDINGS
• Current retail landscape dominated by big box retailers and
strip centers which offer littlr unique experience to the
consumer
• Good potential to create a distinctive retail experience that
capitalizes on built heritage- local agriculture and viticulture,
local talent and entrepreneurship, local food and beverage,
community facilities and events programming, all of which
are necessary ingredients and demand drivers to support a
viable and sustainable Downtown retail environment
• Retail demand is expected to grow at 200,000 square feet a
year in Yakima. In order for downtown to capture some of
that demand, a proactive approach must be taken by the
City to facilitate retail demand
• Recent local efforts show a renewed momentum and interest
in the Downtown is emerging
• Initially, retail revitalization should be focused on a central
area in the heart of Downtown, around a catalyst or "game
changing" project such as a plaza to create the necessary
body heat that will attract investment
DOWNTOWN MASTER PLAN
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PARKING STUDY
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Total Parking Inventory
• On- Street Parking=
1,035 Spaces
• off- Street Parking= 3,665 Spaces
Total ACTIVE Supply = *4,700 Spaces
*NOTE: Does NOT include closed Yakima Mall parking spaces, Dragon !nn
Garage, or Tower Building underground (Approximately 1,100+ spaces).
Council Approved Parking Additions since October 2014
1)Leased JC Penney lot and Naches and Chestnut Lot from Morrier
Family for All Day Parking 110 spots`
2) North Front Street Association leases lot at Front and Yakima
Avenue for All Day Parking (60 spots
3)Opened YPD lot at 3rd and Walnut for All Day Public Parking and
installed updated lighting (78 spots)
4)Converted parts of SSGT Pendleton Way, 3rd Street, 2nd Street and
Chestnut Street from parallel to angled parking (155 new spots)
5)Authorized angled parking on 4t" Street between Yakima Avenue
and Walnut and Chestnut between 1st and Yakima k.Lr fiew spots)
813
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Parking
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as of 2014
894
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after council
approved parking
additions and
plaza construction
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