Was it something you said? A couple readers have informed Swamplot that the stenciled nametags that appeared recently apportioning every single parking space in the lot in front of the Shoppes at Memorial Heights shopping center to one of the resident businesses at 920 Studewood St. have just as suddenly been covered over. Stripes of white paint have now been painted on top of the stenciled signs throughout the parking lot. Which means that next time you’re visiting Hair Desire, Absolve Wine Bar, Urban Cleaners, or (more likely, apparently) Beer Market Co., you will no longer have to check underneath or behind your car to make sure that you’ve parked in a space appropriate to your shopping-center visit.
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Instead, you are now free to park as far as possible from the business you intend to patronize (please stay within the lot, though), and triumphantly stomp on or saunter past dozens of newly re-anonymized spaces on your march in.
Swamplot reported on the appearance of the stencils, and the accompanying divvying-up of the spaces, last week, prompting a number of reader comments about the apparent new parking policy at the stucco strip center. Here’s what the parking-space labels looked like:
The white stripes made their appearance yesterday.
- Previously on Swamplot: Everyone’s Got a Space in the Parking Lot for the Shoppes at Memorial Heights
Photos: Brie Kelman (top 2); Swamplot inbox (third photo); PoppyPetalled (bottom)
As it should’ve been!
I feel like something should be done with all those white rectangles… Maybe management can sell them off by allowing people to write in the names of loved ones that they’ve lost…. like dedication bricks at a church.
This is for Beer Market as football season approaches. It was a mad house during the World Cup to park in the strip center or nearby on the back streets. This is common problem for suburban style developments in Urban areas. The builder makes the quick bucks before flipping it to the operator. The end result will be some of the smaller businessses in the strip center will be forced to vacate. Commercial rent is not getting cheap in the area either.
They should all let their guests know the Wave does go there & anyone in the service area can get there & home on weekends for just $15. Plus they won’t be drinking & driving. 713.863.9283 save the spaces for the smaller daytime business owner’s guests.
They need to do this with that hateful strip center at Richmond/ Weslyan in Greenway Plaza. What little spaces they have are divied up between the individual businesses and they are tow happy. I refuse to go there it’s such a PITA…
In general, are those “reserved for” parking signs in a shopping strip legal? Isn’t it shared community parking for all the shops? Is there a specific COH ordinance when it comes to strip center parking and reserved spots or is it something between the property owner/managers and the strip tenants?
An example is the strip on Washington at Shepherd. There’s a Chase bank, Max’s wine dive, Molina’s, plus a few smaller shops. Almost every spot in the front has a sign stating “for XYY customers only”.
What makes this strip worse is come 5 pm, Valets setup in front of Max’s and Molina’s and place cones in front of most of the front lot parking. WTH? Sorry, those signs really annoy me! Short rant over.