Today@Dal

There are changes coming to the LeMarchant Place and Dalplex area parking lots.

Beginning Friday morning, September 18, a construction fence will be going up around the back row of the the LeMarchant Place Lot (on the former site of the Dalhousie Memorial Arena). This will mean a temporary loss of approximately 20 general permit parking spaces until the end of November. Approximately twenty-two general permit spots will remain. The fence will also block pedestrian traffic through the lot, to maintain safety.

Once the work on the lot is complete, it will open as a “pay and display” parking zone, addressing rising short-term parking needs on campus. The aim of the LeMarchant Lot is to have the vast majority of short term parking in a concentrated area, easily accessible, which will allow some of the other metered areas on campus to become general permit parking. By Monday, September 21 approximately 40 metered spaces on campus will be converted to general permit parking. These will be scattered across the campus.  

Also on September 21 construction begins on the much-anticipated new Fitness Centre on South Street, on the site where Eliza Ritchie Hall currently resides. This will also mean the loss of approximately 75 general permit parking spaces and 12 metered spaces from the Eliza Ritchie and Dalplex parking area.

These projects and others are among a number of major construction projects underway at Dal this year as noted in Dal News’ article on capital projects last month and many will be affecting parking in the months to come. Most of these changes have been studied and considered by Dalhousie’s Transportation and Security Committee over the past year.

Specific changes to the number, location and changes to parking spaces available will be announced in-detail as they happen through Today@Dal and the Facilities Management Website.