Talk:Hendon Car Park
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1962
- Lou Isaacson (October 30, 1962) "City Studying Ban on New Parking Lots" The Birmingham News, p. 30 - The Birmingham City Commission wanted to study passing a zoning amendment to prevent building new surface parking lots. Mayor Art Hanes and Commissioner J. T. Waggoner favored more study. Commissioner Bull Connor stated that "Birmingham already looks like a toothless man," and that he, "will not vote for any more parking lots in downtown Birmingham." Hanes complained that merchants "holler about parking, but they don't want to put one dime into any project." The lot in question was the northeast corner of 21st and 2nd, owned by Birmingham Realty and leased by Hendon & Co. which operated parking lots. The buildings on the property were being demolished when the matter came before the Commission. As an inducement, Mark Hodo, chair of the City Federal Savings & Loan, told Waggoner that the lot might someday be converted to multi-level parking deck with a pedestrian bridge over 21st Street connecting to the City Federal Building. In the event, the lot was developed and no multi-story garage was built. --Dystopos (talk) 19:27, 24 February 2021 (PST)