Center City Green Parking Deck

Love this parking deck! Location is great and the price is even better! Event parking on Saturdays is only $ 5! For the whole day! The spaces are normal size and not those ridiculous tiny ones! It’s kept clean, the elevators work well and as a safety feature, the exterior stairwells are locked from the outside!

What am I doing? Reviewing parking decks? I strangely have a strong opinion about the quality of decks.
I parked here for about a year and this is a fantastic parking deck. It’s relatively new. It has a employee there every weekday. The design of the deck is very smart and efficient. It’s energy efficient. It’s connected to the overstreet mall. It had a slightly better price point than the decks a block away. And it allowed monthly commuters to park here anytime (sporting events included — nice because it is literally right next to TWC arena). It’s not owned by the ‘preferred parking’ monopoly.
I will say the wintertime had a few issues with the freezing of gates. But that’s about the only thing I dislike. If you are looking for a monthly deck and you park on the side of town, use this deck. The only reason I stopped using the deck was because I moved jobs.

Great location for arena events. Centrally located in the city and works well for monthly commuters. I find the garage has easy entrances and exits either onto 5^th street for 6^th street. Even when it seems like a line to get it, it moves fairly consistently.
The garage has definitely seen an uptick in daily parking traffic. They are competitively priced with the in by 8:30 deal being $ 6 per day currently (April 2015). With the uptick in usage, I do find that I have to drive to a higher level. But hey, it’s the city what can you expect.
One unique feature in this garage is the spiral entrance. Until noon or so, you can drive up the spiral and pull directly into a higher floor. So no weaving floor by floor. Then afternoons the spiral changes directions and you can head straight down. I only know of one other garage in Charlotte that has this (BB&T).
Another unique feature is that you can walk through the Wake Forest garage and the 1 BAC garage into the 1 BAC building. Completely covered for those rainy days. Look for the skywalk on the 4^th floor.
Finally, the deck does get messy after large events with trash and such. But I see a janitor going through picking up fairly frequently. It’s probably due to the higher amount of traffic and proximity to the arena.

Center City Green used to be my go-​to parking deck, mostly because it’s right in the middle of everything, but no one would ever park there. The best reason to go was that they had great evening/​night rates: Just $ 5, even during many events and festivals. Being just across the street from the arena.
Unfortunately, they recently changed their pricing structure, so they don’t start night prices until after 7pm. Now that’s not horrible, but if you’re coming for dinner or some other event that starts earlier, you’ll have to pay the charge which can really rack up — and if you don’t pay close attention, it’ll really bite you. Instead of $ 5, it may be as much as $ 10 or $ 12, so watch out. Or, just go out later.

Center City green is a popular parking garage. It fills up pretty quickly in the mornings. It seems to be a very popular parking destination because of its proximity to so many different venues. If you want to make a night on the town or come to an event at the arena its the best place to keep your car out of the weather & have it protected.