Yet another high-rise car park in Dhaka

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday opened a multi-storey car park with a capacity of 228 vehicles at Gulshan in efforts to ease the horrendous traffic congestion in the city’s posh neighbourhood.The capital development authority has developed the facility comprised of two basements and first seven floors of a 14-storey commercial building.Rajuk has constructed the building at a cost of Tk 39 crore on a 19.5-katha land in front of the city corporation market at Gushan-1 over a period of six years since December 2007.The top seven floors will be rented out for office and other commercial occupancy. There will be seven shops on the ground floor and a Rajuk office on the second floor.Asked how many vehicles of the building’s rented floors will share parking space, Project Director Golam Mostafa said it was yet to be estimated.He then said the number would not be over 50.The parking facility would be leased out, and an individual user will have to pay a certain fee for it, he added.Out of a total of 1,39,260 square-foot floor area, 98,935 square feet will be allocated for car parking, and 40,325 square feet for office.There are three car lifts to travel between 3rd and 7th floors.
Abdul Mannan Khan, state minister for housing and public works, formally opened the facility.Secretary to the ministry Khondaker Showkat Hossain and Rajuk Chairman Md Nurul Huda spoke on the occasion.Rajuk Executive Magistrate Rokon Ud-Daula and Executive Engineer Nurul Islam, among others, were present.