Save the ground level retail space at the Pelissier Street Parking Garage

Although the retail space is currently vacant, so are many of the provided parking spaces. Spend more time finding retail clients for the space and reduce parking fees to attract more people to the downtown area!

Removing store fronts will create a dead zone in the heart of the city. We have enough of those. Also consider the increased security issues with the creation of dark places on street level. Completely goes against most sensible urban design models in use ..... throughout the world.

Good urban design principles suggest that parking structures not extend to the street frontage, particularly in urban centres. This is a large structure and covering the ground floor retail units to parking spaces will create a huge gap in the street front. It's important not to take this decision lightly. Many municipalities have policies in place that restrict developers from building parking structures without including ground floor commercial units, Windsor city administration should consider a similar policy. These can be profitable tenant spaces if design changes and the proper investments are made, but as long as these spaces exist in their current condition they will never perform.

We're very concerned about the landscape that defines the downtown core. If you want to attract shoppers, put parking RIGHT NEXT to stores. Keep the store fronts on Pelissier - it is the street that Ouelette once was.

i had a boutique on the ground level of the parking garage. Taking away the retail space would be a big mistake.

1003 Isabelle Pl

This is valuable retail space, especially with the parking to support it. I often go downtown and can't find parking near enough to restaurants and end up going further out of town. (I don't want to parks blocks away from my destination. This is a great location for restaurants and trendy boutique type stores! Save our downtown!

I agree that the void created from losing these retail spaces will affect the neighbouring retail and residential and the street requires and would benefit the most from a consistent Part St. to Maiden Lane retail presence.

How are we going to animate downtown if we don't have spaces for businesses to occupy. I think this will only make Pelissier feel more dead than it already is.

Don't suburbanize the city's only pedestrian neighbourhood!

We need more retail to live up Downtown

571 Joslyn rd

Downtown shouldn't pay for city's own neglect.

I agree we need businesses not more parking.

Pelissier Street needs the businesses. Keep the main level open to our business community.

absolutely, please maintain the intensity of the street with more pedestrian traffic, not vehicles where people should be.

I personally would like to see more businesses come downtown rather than more parking.

8088 RIVERSIDE DR E

As a business located on Pelissier Street we feel we would be directly and negatively affected by a decision to gut any downtown retail space and convert said space to additional parking particularly on the street where we conduct our business. We daily see available parking spaces along Pelissier Street unoccupied as it stands without the addition of 42 more spaces. As the City has an official plan in place which designates Pelissier Street as a themed street, perhaps the money that would be spent converting the building to serve as what we would deem unnecessary additional parking, that money could be better spent on offering existing business owners assistance and incentives to strengthen the work they are already doing to improve this area?