Parking Garage

The special section in Wednesday's editions incorrectly reported that the parking garage of the Holiday Inn in the 300 block of West Pratt Street would be available to the public for watching the papal parade tomorrow. The garage will not be open to the public for watching the event.The Sun regrets the error.

Police logTown Center: 10200 block of Wincopin Circle: A maroon 1992 Nissan Pathfinder with Maryland tags 844453M was stolen from the parking garage near the Columbia Inn Saturday or Sunday. Police said someone also tried to steal a 1994 Honda Accord Saturday by tampering with its ignition.Pub Date: 6/11/96

POLICE LOG* Town Center: 10400 block of Little Patuxent Parkway: A black 1993 Acura Vigor was stolen from a parking garage Friday, police said.10300 block of Little Patuxent Parkway: An officer responding to car alarm in the Columbia Mall parking lot Friday night found a 1989 Acura Legend with its door unlocked and its ignition disabled.

Noise problems and plans for a new Amtrak parking garage are among the items to be discussed at tonight's meeting of the Baltimore/Washington International Airport Neighbors Committee.The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in the Maryland Aviation Administration Assembly Room on the third floor of the terminal building.Air carriers' progress toward meeting national noise standards will be updated. Also scheduled is a discussion of the certified airport noise zone.Plans for a new parking garage to relieve congestion at the Amtrak/MARC station are also on the agenda.

Contract given for razing work on parking garageA $16,500 contract to plan the first stage of demolition of the Gilbert parking garage has been awarded to McCrone Inc., an Annapolis architectural firm.The City Council awarded the contract Monday night, but several council members wanted the parks board to comment on the plans. Demolition of the parking garage will eliminate a small park area with a bench and a tree.The garage, off East Main Street between the public library and fire hall, is scheduled for demolition because roof problems were determined too costly to repair.

The finally finished parking garage by the Roland Park post office has been bustling with cars all holiday season. The renovations brought no improvement in the careful navigation required there. It is still tight, with caution required not to broadside another car when making a turn or to sideswipe a cement pillar when parking.   When the renovations were complete, new lights created a brighter and safer space than it had been previously.  Now only a few lights work. During the longest and darkest days of the years, most of the parking garage is pitch black after 4:30 p.m. and on rainy days.

In Dante's "Inferno," there are nine circles of Hell. In Towson Town Center's main parking garage, there are seven. To many shoppers, that's about the only difference."

City officials have chosen a Baltimore design team to rework the Inner Harbor's Rash Field and to build a parking garage below it. Architects from Ziger/Snead and Thomas Balsley Associates will begin immediately working with neighboring community and business leaders and city officials to brainstorm ideas for the new park. The 9-acre park at the southern end of the harbor opened in 1976. Officials hope to have the work done by 2009 so that Baltimore can again be a stop for the popular yachting event, the Volvo Ocean Race.

The Frederick County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the man shot last week during an apparent robbery in a downtown parking garage owned by the University of Maryland, Baltimore had been stabbed in March during a home invasion there. The victim was identified through that home invasion as Amir Abbas Doulatshahi, 45, of Middletown. Capt. Tim Clarke, the special operations commander for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said investigators have turned over their files from that case to Baltimore police, but would not comment on whether they believe the cases are related.