{"id":85990,"date":"2013-11-13T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=85990"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:15:26","slug":"garage-1-brings-parking-relief-to-uconn-health-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/11\/garage-1-brings-parking-relief-to-uconn-health-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage 1 Brings Parking Relief to UConn Health Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parking Garage 1 has a capacity of more than 1,400 spaces for patients and employees. (Janine Gelineau\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new parking garage is open on the lower campus of the UConn Health Center, marking another milestone in the series of construction projects backed by the state investment known as Bioscience Connecticut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Named Garage 1, the six-level parking structure has a capacity of more than 1,400 spaces, intended in the long run to supplement the UConn Health Outpatient Pavilion, an eight-floor clinical care building scheduled to open adjacent to the garage by the end of next year.<\/p>\n

Employees who\u2019ve been parking off-campus, in spaces the Health Center has been leasing, are being re-assigned to park in Garage 1. The first of those employees have started parking there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve closed several leased lots, and those employees are parking here today,\u201d said Cliff Ashton, associate vice president of facilities management, after cutting the ribbon on Garage 1 Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019ll be bringing people over from the Exchange after we make sure we have any bugs worked out here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The transition will save the expense of leasing 425 offsite spaces and allow a reduction in shuttle bus services to remote lots. A new shuttle bus line, known as Route 4, or the \u201cGarage 1 Express,\u201d<\/a> now provides continuous service between the Main Road (Level 6) entrance to the garage and the academic entrance, with a frequency every five minutes during peak times. The revised shuttle schedules are available at http:\/\/bit.ly\/UCHCbus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Employees who formerly parked in off-campus lots start parking in Garage 1 today. (Janine Gelineau\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt should help out quite a bit, and it certainly is going to allow us to try to get people assigned closer to where they work, which should take a lot of pressure off,\u201d Ashton says. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a punch list of things in terms of a few signs we want to add and things like that, but so far it\u2019s working real well.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the first few days, volunteers are serving as parking guides, wearing fluorescent vests and using bright orange flags to wave people toward available parking spaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just such a big garage, people aren\u2019t quite used to it,\u201d Ashton says. \u201cEspecially when it\u2019s empty, it might not be obvious which way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Construction of Garage 1 was completed in nine months, on schedule and on budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just started in February and here we are in early November with an open garage. All the precast was done locally, and it just went quickly, working six days a week and getting it done,\u201d says Maureen Godfroy, a project engineer with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., contracted by the UConn Health Center to oversee the Bioscience Connecticut construction projects. \u201cOriginally it was supposed to be five levels, then we added the sixth level so it would connect to Main Road. The Main Road entrance is an employee-only entrance. There\u2019s signage in place to reflect that. Patients will start parking here early next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employees assigned to Garage 1 are able to use their badge to lift the gate for access from Main Road or Circle Road. Patients will access the garage from the Circle Road entrance, which puts them on Level 2. When the UConn Health Outpatient Pavilion opens, a ground-level entrance will provide access to Level 1 closest to the outpatient building. Level 1 of the garage has not opened yet.<\/p>\n

Free valet parking for patients at the Medical Arts and Research Building will continue, with plans to phase it out early next year.<\/p>\n

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Cliff Ashton (center), associate vice president of facilities management, cuts the ribbon signaling the opening of Parking Garage 1, the six-level parking structure on the Health Center’s lower campus. (Janine Gelineau\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The specific breakdown of patient and staff parking has not been finalized and won\u2019t be before the outpatient building opens. Until that time, all employees parking in Garage 1 should consider their assignment temporary. Employees with questions about their parking assignments should direct them to parking.registration@uchc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bioscience Connecticut, the collection of mostly state-backed construction projects with the long-term vision of making Connecticut a worldwide destination for bioscience research and health care, is credited with creating more than 1,000 construction jobs since breaking ground June 2012. More than 80 percent of the contracts associated with Bioscience Connecticut have been awarded to Connecticut companies.<\/p>\n

Webcam images of the lower campus construction site, and the other ongoing sites, are available at http:\/\/bit.ly\/UCHCwebcam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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