Linny Pacillo Parking Garage (40794654963)

The Linny Pacillo Parking Garage is a 10-story

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, United States. The upper nine stories are for parking, with the first story serving as retail space. The structure contains a total of , including the retail space. Owned by the state government of Alaska, it provides 844 parking spaces for state employees, plus 40 spaces for visitors. The garage sits across from and services the

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. The garage was built to replace parking spaces in downtown which were displaced by the construction of the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center. The garage was designed by architects Koonce Pfeffer Bettis Inc. Construction of the garage began on February 1, 2007, and it opened on September 8, 2008. Tenants on the first floor are Northrim Bank, who have been inaugural tenants of the facility, and the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles, who opened their downtown Anchorage office in the facility on November 9, 2010.

Name

The garage is named after Carolyn "Linny" Pacillo (September 2, 1959 - November 17, 2006). Her family operated Courtney's Tudor Service on East Tudor Road, which was one of the last remaining independent gas stations in Anchorage. The Pacillo family sold the station in 2003, which has since gone out of business. Linny Pacillo, along with her sister Susan, became pop heroes in Anchorage (and later elsewhere) by donning tutus and plugging parking meters downtown to protest strict parking enforcement. They were dubbed The Parking Fairies.

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, a

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whose district includes downtown Anchorage, sponsored the bill naming the garage for Pacillo. The Anchorage

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approved the name in February 2007.

Art

The art in the garage, under the 1 Percent for Art Program, includes art inspired by Alaska flora and fauna on each garage level, a piece in the main elevator lobby that tells the Parking Fairies story, and a mural over the Seventh Avenue exit titled "Focus on

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" that features four men instrumental in Alaska's becoming a state:

Bob Atwood Robert Bruce Atwood (March 31, 1907 – January 10, 1997) was an American journalist who served as the long-time editor and publisher of the ''Anchorage Times.'' He was also an early advocate of Alaska statehood. Biography Robert Bruce Atwood ...

Bill Egan William Allen Egan (October 8, 1914 – May 6, 1984) was an American Democratic politician. He served as the first governor of the State of Alaska from January 3, 1959 to 1966 and 1970 to 1974, as well as a shadow U.S. Senator from Alaska Terri ...

Bob Bartlett Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett (April 20, 1904 – December 11, 1968), was an Alaska politician and a member of the Democratic Party. A key fighter for Alaska statehood, Bartlett served as the Secretary of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1945, ...

and

Ernest Gruening Ernest Henry Gruening ( ; February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Gruening was the governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from A ...

.The mural, by Dan DeRoux, is made up of 540 smaller images from every community in the state, flora, fauna and the members of the Constitutional Convention.the artist

References

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