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Merchant Validated Parking
The following Downtown merchants validate parking in the municipal garages.
Current participants as of 08/11/2009:
- 248 Calder Way
- American Red Cross
- The Animal Kingdom
- Appalachian Outdoors
- The Atherton Hotel
- Aurum Goldsmiths
- Avant Garden
- Bar Blue
- BioLife Plasma Center
- Central PA Dance Workshop
- Comic Swap
- Connections
- Creative Oasis
- Days Inn Penn State
- The Deli Restaurant
- Douglas Albert Gallery
- Downtown Nails
- Executive Offices of GN Assoc.
- Gift Adventures
- Gingerbread Man
- Happy Valley Optical
- Harper’s
- Home Reflections
- Laurie Kile, MD
- Kitchen Kaboodle
- Dr. George Kleban, MD
- Kranich’s Jewelers
- Lion’s Pride
- McLanahan’s Downtown Market
- McLanahans’s Student Store
- Moyer Jewelers
- Mr. Charles
- Mr. Tux
- The Music Mart
- Nittany Quill
- Northwest Savings Bank
- Old State Clothing Company
- Perfect 10 & More Day Spa
- Philly Pretzel
- Rapid Transit Sports
- Reflections
- Rita’s Ice
- Roly Poly
- Skate Penn
- S. J. Miska Goldsmiths & Jewelers
- S’Hair-eng Salon
- Signature Engraving
- Spectacles
- Student Book Store
- Tadpole Crossing
- Trendz
- Uncle Eli’s
- Voices of Central PA
- Webster’s Bookstore Café
- Woodring’s Floral Gardens
- Your Cigar Den
Individual conditions for validation may vary. See merchant for details.
Please note: One validation ticket is worth one hour of parking in the Beaver Avenue, Pugh Street and Fraser Street parking garages.
Parking Lots
- 3 hour meters are located in Fraser Lot, Beaver Lot and Foster Lot. 3 and 5 hour meters are located in McAllister Parking Deck.
- The rate is $.75 per hour. Meters accept quarters, dimes, and nickels.
- Meters are enforced Monday through Saturday from 8:00 am until 10:00 pm.
- All off-street meters are free Thursdays after 6 pm.
- All municipal meters are free all day Sunday.
On Street Meters
- Pay meters 8:00 am until 6:00 pm Monday through Saturday.
- All on-street meters have a 2 hour or less time limit.
- The rate is $1.00 per hour. Meters accept quarters, dimes, and nickels.
Automated Downtown Parking Garages
All three downtown parking garages on Beaver Avenue, Pugh Street and Fraser Street operate on fully-automated "cashier-less" systems where customers pay for their parking before returning to their vehicles. Attendants are on duty most hours, and all garages offer monthly parking. Parking rates are $.75 per hour, with a maximum charge of $15 per 24 hour period. On special event weekends, parking is $1.25 per hour with a maximum charge of $24 per day.
The system works like this:
- You receive a ticket when you enter the garage.
- When you are ready to leave, you go to one of the automated paystations (located in the elevator lobby) and insert the parking ticket to find the total owed.
- Insert validations, cash or coins to pay the fee.
- When paid, the ticket will be returned to you. Use this to exit the garage. There is a 15-minute grace period from the time your ticket is returned until you must exit the garage. If a customer takes more than 20 minutes to return to their car, the gate will not open and they will have to pay for the additional time.
- Upon leaving the garage, the ticket is inserted in a ticket reader at the exit gate, and the gate is lifted. The machine at the gate retains the ticket.
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