Pay-to-park spaces at Fort Worth’s University Park Village have disappeared after backlash
Pay-to-park spaces have disappeared from Fort Worth’s University Park Village lot a mere months after they were put up.
Nine spots appeared in January in the parking lot near the front entrances of multiple University Park Village shops like Flower Child, the Apple Store and Lululemon.
The spots were $7 to $12 plus a 30-cent service, depending on length of stay.
The paid spaces had sparked outrage online, with users on Reddit writing about how much they hated parking at the historically chaotic parking lot and threatening to never shop at the outdoor shopping center again if the initiative spread to the entire lot.
After the Star-Telegram wrote about the spaces in late January, Facebook users had even more to say about the parking initiative and state of the University Park Village lot.
“Wait, this is a joke right?” one user wrote.
“Like a VIP cut-in-line pass at theme parks?” another wrote. “The more money you got, the better access you have.”
“Parking is horrible there,” another said. “If these scares people off, that will help.”
Simon Property Group, which owns University Park Village, did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
On Monday morning, orange traffic poles and cones were in the places the parking signs once stood.
Almost every space had a car in it.
