Bentley administration seeking legislation for $21 million state parking deck

Gov. Robert Bentley's administration plans to seek legislation to build a new parking deck, mostly for state employees, beside the Gordon Persons Building, a large state office building in Montgomery.

The deck would be on a block that is now a parking lot with about 250 spaces.

The deck would have about 1,300 spaces, said state Finance Director Clinton Carter, who mentioned the plan at a meeting of the Legislature's budget reform task force last week.

Carter said the estimated cost would be about $21.5 million.

A parking deck has been planned for some time on the property, bounded by South Ripley, Pelham, Jackson and Washington streets.

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