Fraser Street Parking Garage in downtown State College will temporarily close for repairs at the end of this week.
The 37-year-old parking facility will be closed from 5 p.m. on Friday, July 22, until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, July 26. Prior to the full garage closure, the crossover at level 4 and up will be closed on Wednesday, so motorists are asked to move their vehicles below level 4 by Tuesday evening.
“The complete closure is necessary to complete required repairs and coatings to the parking facility drive isles,” a notice from the borough stated.
Permit holders and commuters use the Pugh Street and Beaver Avenue garages during the closure.
After reopening, specific areas will be closed as needed to complete repairs, but the facility will remain open.
At 335 spaces, the Fraser Street Garage is State College’s third-largest and second-oldest municipal parking facility. A 2020 condition appraisal by Walker Consultants rated the garage as being “in fair to good condition with occasional structural repairs required and areas of recommended waterproofing upgrade and
maintenance.”
The report identified $564,000 needed for the garage through 2023.
In total, the appraisal found the borough’s four public parking structures were in need of nearly $4 million in repairs over three years and an estimated total of about $7.3 million over the next decade.
State College Borough Council in 2021 approved borrowing $10 million, in part to construct parking facility improvements, as well as to refinance existing bond debt and to fund the purchase of a former fraternity house to be repurposed for human services initiatives.
The Pugh Street garage, which is the oldest of the facilities, was closed for a week in June for repairs. Repairs to the McAllister Parking Deck are ongoing with partial closures periodically in place and completion anticipated in early August, borough spokesperson Kayla Lafferty said earlier this summer.
