JPL to build $18M parking structure

By Daniel Siegal
Pasadena Sun

The agency famed for building rockets and gear for exploring the moon and Mars is launching a more earthbound project, building a five-story parking structure near Hahamongna Watershed Park.

With the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's East Arroyo Parking Lot set to be turned back into parkland, a quarter of the parking area used by JPL workers will disappear. As a result, the NASAagency tentatively plans to build an $18 million, 1,200-space parking structure on the other side of the arroyo, closer to JPL buildings.

JPL has leased the land for its current lot, in the northeastern corner of the park, from Pasadena since 1952. But on June 30, 2013, JPL's most recent lease will expire, and Pasadena will not renew it.

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