Towne Centre Laurel: Where should I park on a busy night?

Each Friday and Saturday night, there's a procession of cars driving up and down Towne Centre at Laurel's main drag, each driver looking for a parking space, watching shoppers, waiting to pounce when a spot opens up.

(Have you ever walked back to your car, and looked over your shoulder to see a car creeping slowly behind you? You didn't like that, did you? No one does. Don't be one of those stalkers.)

Near the new Regal movie theater at the end of the avenue opposite Route 1 is a parking garage. Go there, and you'll see this:

Yeah, that's full too. How many parking spaces are there at Towne Centre at Laurel, anyway? The topic came up back in November, when the Laurel Leader posted an article about the new Regal Theater:

The link above goes to the Greenberg Gibbons project website for Towne Centre at Laurel. The number of parking spaces isn't there, so the Greenberg Gibbons site wasn't really applicable to the discussion above, but the site has enough interesting and fun information to keep you busy for minutes and minutes, if you like that sort of thing. As for the parking question, here you go:

Thank you, Towne Centre at Laurel management!

So, 1,570. That sounds like a great deal of parking. Where is it?

Much of it is on the upper deck of the garage, directly above the packed lower level.

Look at that! On the night I took these pictures, there were only five or ten cars up there. (One of them honked as it passed, and its driver glared at me for standing on the ramp, taking pictures.) The rest of it was just wide open, waiting for your vehicle. See?

Some parking garages have lanes that wind around and up to the top, so you can simply roll along until you find a spot. The Towne Centre at Laurel garage is not one of those garages: if you're on the bottom level, you'll have to drive back out of it and around to one of the two ramps to the top level.

There may also be room in the lot shown here, between Party City and the secret government project (involving alien technology).

Here's a map of Towne Centre Laurel. That big arrow at the top is where you should try parking first. The top of the garage, not the bottom. The other arrows point to areas where you may find a spot.

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