The Commissioners of the City of Fort Lauderdale made a commitment to the City’s Downtown, a commitment to assist in its rebirth by constructing a parking facility which would provide interested developers and governmental agencies with parking necessary for viable Downtown development. The site, selected in conjunction with the Master Plan of the Downtown Development Authority, encompasses one entire city block and half ofanother. It is bisected by a city street which is a major traffic feed into and out of the Downtown. Surrounding the site are locations for future commercial office buildings on the North, South, East and West as well as a major regional Library at the Northwest corner, an Art Museum at the Southwest corner, a church at the Northeast corner and a Community College Downtown Campus at the Southeast corner. The structure became a connector, street to parking, automobile to pedestrian, pedestrian to destination, one portion of Downtown to another.