10th & Olive Parking Lot Loses One Entry; Fence Gains Height, Gate
It’s rare to see an owner of one of downtown’s many surface parking lots spend money making improvements, but for nearly a month now that has been the case at 10th & Olive.
![Small private parking lot, 10th & Olive, provides parking for commercial spaces in two nearby buildings. 2013 photo.](http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1001olive.jpg)
![On August 12th I noticed work being done on the surface -- it had been very uneven and not maintained. .](http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1001olive02.jpg)
![By September 1st the iron fence was now taller. The 10th St entranced was now closed off.](http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1001olive03.jpg)
![By September 4th they'd cut a pedestrian opening, The Olive St entry will be getting a gate so people needed a pedestrian route to get in/out.](http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1001olive04.jpg)
Ideally, at some point in the future, this corner will once again have a multi-story building. In the meantime, these changes are welcomed — especially closing off the 10th Street entrance. Would be nice to see one additional on-street parking space added where the driveway was.
— Steve Patterson