Public will have to wait a few more months to use the JUMP parking garage

Teya Vitu//June 16, 2017//

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The JUMP garage likely won't open for public parking until late summer or early fall. Photo by Teya Vitu. — The JUMP garage likely won’t open for public parking until late summer or early fall. Photo by Teya Vitu.

The five-level JUMP garage, a Myrtle Street landmark for three-plus years, still isn’t ready for public parking – even though the Jack’s Urban Meeting Place opened a year ago.

There is the matter of the 24 historic tractors on display among the parking spaces in the garage. The JUMP garage doubles as a tractor museum with information panels.

“The tractor canopies and enclosures are not entirely in place, and there is still construction on the upper deck,” said Kathy O’Neill, JUMP’s community engagement director.

The JUMP garage is also a museum for 24 tractors. Photo by Teya Vitu.

O’Neill expects public parking to be available in late summer or early fall on the garage’s third and fourth levels with 45 and 44 spaces, respectively.

The 25 street-level parking spaces are now available for people taking part in programs or events at JUMP.

No monthly passes for downtown employees will be available at the JUMP garage, O’Neill noted.

“We get many questions: ‘Can I pay for a month?’” O’Neill said. “No, we will not do that.”

Public parking, however, has been available since March 1 at 499 spaces in the underground Simplot Garage, which is accessible by 11^th Street between Front and Myrtle Street. Public parking, however, is limited to after 4 p.m. weekdays and all day on weekends.