Currently, the University has taken part of the West Lot in order to work on building a parking deck which will add, overall, 460 spaces to West Lot, with the addition of a parking deck.
According to Eric Jaskolka, facility construction engineer with the University capital project management, the construction is on schedule.
“The contractor’s Notice To Proceed date was June 21, 2010, with a duration of 365 days, which makes the completion date June 21, 2011,” Jaskolka said. “Change Orders and delays could add time to the schedule and as of today none have been issues but there are a couple days pending.”
Christine Klein, public communication specialist with N.C. State transportation, said transportation is going to assign the spaces in the deck as “WD.”
“The 850 spaces in the deck will be designated ‘WD’ (West Deck) and serve the commuter population, basically becoming an expansion of ‘W’ commuter parking,” Klein said. “The existing 250 space West Lot surface area is currently designated ‘W’ and will become an east campus resident quasi-storage lot. It will be priced between the current RE/RW permits and the RS (resident storage) permit.
According to Klein, the deck will originally be opened to only residents living on east campus.
“It will be for east residents only, unless we get close to school start and spaces remain, then we will open it to west campus residents,” Klein said.
Klein said the West Lot Deck will also allow employees with “C” permits to park in the deck.
“The West Lot is now zoned ‘C’ and it’s not definite, but will likely become part of the east campus resident lot adding another 75 or 100 spaces,” Klein said. “Employees in the area with ‘C’ permits can overflow into the deck as needed.”
Jaskolka said that currently the concrete pre-cast.
“What you see now being erected is the concrete pre-cast,” Jaskolka said. “These pieces are fabricated in a plant in South Carolina and are trucked in daily. This activity is scheduled into March. If all goes well we should be right on schedule in June.”
