Ellwood Thompson’s unveils its newly designed parking lot
by Nathan Cushing Shoppers at Ellwood Thompson’s will find a surprise today: a newly designed parking lot. The new layout was unveiled this morning to both customers and employees. “I was just over the moon,” said Becky Lakin, Marketing Director for the local grocer. “All the employees are giddy over it.” The previous parking lot […]
by Nathan Cushing
Shoppers at Ellwood Thompson’s will find a surprise today: a newly designed parking lot. The new layout was unveiled this morning to both customers and employees. “I was just over the moon,” said Becky Lakin, Marketing Director for the local grocer. “All the employees are giddy over it.”
The previous parking lot required cars to snake through a one-way, winding layout among angled parking spots. The layout frustrated many drivers, especially during peak hours. “People thought it was more difficult to navigate,” said Lakin. “In changing it, Ellwood Thompson’s acknowledges it was not ideal.”
Plans to revamp the parking lot were, in part, inspired by the store’s recent expansion into an adjacent space previously occupied by Blockbuster. Lakin said the grocer “thought this would be a good route to go.”
Contractors took two nights to transform the parking lot. Work began Sunday evening and was completed late Monday night. The lot now foregoes the one-way twisting for straight, two-way traffic and 90-degree parking spaces (the redesign of the parking lot has netted the store two additional spaces). Lakin said the lot is safer and that navigating the new lot is “completely intuitive.” In just the first morning after unveiling the new layout, Lakin said that responses have been “overwhelmingly positive” both in the store and online. “People have been coming in and pulling us aside” to compliment it.
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