Encouraging patrons to support local businesses, Mayor Joe Ganim has suspended parking meter fees Downtown from December 9 until January 6, 2021.
“It’s important that we remember to support local businesses–especially during the holidays” stated Ganim in a news release. “By suspending the enforcement and collection of parking meter fees, we hope residents and visitors feel encouraged to eat local, shop local, and enjoy the holiday season in our City.”
Parking meter info can be found here, https://bridgeportct.gov/parkingmeters with a map of meter locations here: http://bridgeportparking.com/meter-location-map.pdf.
For a complete list of Downtown businesses, visit https://infobridgeport.com/.
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It’s a little to late for free parking now, people have already made ty decision not to shop downtown earlier in the year with those parking meters.
LOL..
Thank you Stevie A.
Not for nuthin but where would one shop downtown???
Bob,that’s exactly what I was thinking…all I can think of is getting a gift card for Ralph& Rich’s..
Wait! You mean downtown Bridgeport is no longer a shopping Mecca????
When did that happen?????
LMAO!!!!
Rich, as soon as the Majestic theater development opens, there will be plenty of shopping and thousands of people milling about, not to mention the skating rink!
Harvey, please!!
“Please be advised that the regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council’s Economic and Community Development Committee to be held on Wednesday evening December 16 at 6:00 PM…….is hereby cancelled ” DUE TO LACK OF AGENDA ITEMS.
IRONY Posted on Only in Bridgeport…….FREE DOWNTOWN PARKING……HOLIDAY SEASON…..MULTIPLE MAIN ST PROPERTIES IN DEVELOPMENT (OR NOT)- CAN WE GET A SCORECARD THAT WOULD SHOW WHERE EACH PROPERTY LISTS FROM ITS ORIGINAL AND THEN SUBSEQUENT TIMETABLE…..ESPECIALLY THE SKATING RINK
Other CT communities have Holiday Walks supported by Chambers of Commerce and retail merchants. What happens in Bridgeport instead? Time will tell.
Poor Bridgeport, one of the perks of being older is that I remember down town in its halcyon days. Teenagers spending Thursday nights driving and walking down main street, three open theaters, ice cream venues, small
fashionable boutiques. And the best part, you could safely walk to and from. I know we can’t recapture those times, but with some will and creative thinking, a new down town can make memories.
Lisa, I was a stock clerk at Read’s Department store and on Thursday night and OMG, it was wall to wall people walking up and Main St on both sides of the street. No fights, it was just people out shopping and having a good time but after the Hi Ho Mall and the Trumbull Mall downtown started to become a ghost town, then parking became a big problem downtown then the parking meters put the death nail to downtown. Lisa, those were the days.
Ron,I remember the elevator attendees in Reads,with their white gloves,opening and closing the metal gates when the doors opened.And the crown jewel downtown was Levitts dept store,and then going to eat at Woolworths counter.Great memories of a once great city.
Harvey, those women were like my second mother. I was still in high school and it was my first job and they were always checking on me.
Gee Lisa, I remember as a kid the elevator women downtown but not all the other stuff you are talking about. Must be a lot older than me. 😮
Shut up Bubba! 😁
Yeah! That’s not nice. Lol.
Harvey, my step mother ran the elevator at Read’s for a few years. We used to go there to ride on her elevator on Saturdays.
Thank all of the previous writers for sharing very positive memories of “downtown” when it was the regional marketplace and entertainment venue………before suburban shopping malls….that are having their own space problems with vacancies…….at the current moment where the internet is the marketplace that satisfies much need….at a current time of Covid where gathering does not serve the public…..always changing?……but what has changed in the approach of our leadership to realistically make improvements?
Notice that the memories from downtown were mostly about people who had a job for which they were paid by retailers who could sell product in stores to other folks with jobs. Where is the current upbeat narrative from Ganim2 and where is there OPEN, ACCOUNTABLE, TRANSPARENT and HONEST evidence that he can demonstrate about private dollars invested in private dreams?
Instead, the City offers jobs to city folks and fails to review results. Or in some areas where entry jobs could benefit from local residents, hire outsiders who are only here for the “job” (more rightly for the paycheck it gains them) and not for the public service represented by a job that pays fairly but expects results. Does the City monitor employees regularly and seriously across departmental areas about job performance? Time will tell.
JMl is right.
It seems the only good jobs in Bridgeport are reserved for city employees..
Nobody expects Bridgeport to be ground zero for a new employment option available nowhere else.
Nobody expects Bridgeport to be a place people move to, to join something unavailable elsewhere.
Lucky you — you’ll be here already.