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Originally Posted by We vs us
Re: the state garage — does anyone know how much of it is dedicated to the chiller facility? And would it have to stay as part of a potential redevelopment?
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I was looking at it on Google Maps the other day and was wondering how much of the existing parking garage could be torn down without affecting the district cooling plant (chilled water) on the southeast corner.
See Here
Emporis shows that construction on the garage started July 1994, the district cooling plant wasn't added until about 6 years later.
Downtown Coolin' Plant Chillin' Like Paul Robbins -
Who's Paul Robbins, and what's a cooling plant?
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Robbins began calling for a Downtown cooling plant in the mid-1990s. Aided by fellow civic-minded greens Shudde Fath, Scott Johnson, Andrew Donoho, and AE's Roger Duncan, he was able to advance the concept through the city's Electric Utility Commission and to City Council, which, following a feasibility study, agreed to build the plant in 2000 -- originally intending it to cool the state Hobby office building, the new City Hall, and the Computer Sciences Corp. complex.
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Also, there was a plan to expand the district cooling plant
see here - page 3 and 4
I'm just wondering about the rest of the garage though. That whole block is
not in a Capitol View Corridor, either.