By Jeff Ostroth
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE

For those who’ve reserved a space in Cedar Crest’s soon-to-open parking garage, the community’s all-weather lifestyle has now extended to their automobiles.

“All parking spaces are fully protected,” says Ray Guarino, Cedar Crest’s director of marketing. “The facility is directly accessible from Greenleaf Court, our newest residence building which is opening next month.”

Get in and go
To get to their cars, people who have reserved spaces in the new parking garage can take an elevator from inside Greenleaf Court to the parking level. From there they can walk right to their vehicles without ever going out into the rain, snow, or hot summer sun.

“Since their parking spaces are fully covered, they won’t have to clear snow off windows, or air out a vehicle that’s been baking in the sun,” says Ray.

The final phase
The new parking garage—Cedar Crest’s first and only such facility— opens next month along with Greenleaf Court, one of the last two residence buildings that will ever be built at Cedar Crest. “All construction is coming to an end this year,” says Ray. “We see the garage as part of our grand finale.”

Because the facility adjoins Greenleaf Court, it naturally offers an important advantage to having a home in that building. “It is certainly one of the reasons for all the advance reservations in Greenleaf Court,” says Ray. “Of course, the fact that apartment homes will no longer be built at Cedar Crest is driving an overall surge in reservations.”

Ray says that people are starting to realize that the time has come to select the home they want, while there are still homes to be had.

An all-campus amenity
Although the parking garage is directly accessible from Greenleaf Court, spaces in the facility are available to anyone who has or is reserving a home at Cedar Crest.