{"id":177079,"date":"2026-02-23T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177079\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:36:08","slug":"downtown-austin-alliance-debuts-free-parking-pilot-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177079\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Austin Alliance debuts free parking pilot program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to park it. Over the next 10 weeks, patrons at participating Downtown businesses will be eligible to receive free or discounted parking as part of the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/downtownaustin.com\/getting-around\/downtown-parking-validation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Downtown Patron Parking Pilot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership between the Downtown Austin Alliance and Austin Convention Center is meant to boost accessibility to nearby businesses during the convention center\u2019s redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors will be able to receive two hours free (or discounted parking for longer visits) at Second Street Garage and Fifth Street Garage all day Sunday-Thursday and until 4 p.m. Friday + Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Participating businesses include Antone\u2019s Nightclub, Revoluci\u00f3n, Nica on 4th, El Cockfight, Elephant Room, The Creek and The Cave, HokkaiSan, Skipjack Oyster, Speakeasy Austin, and Sunset Strip Comedy Club. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/downtownaustin.com\/getting-around\/downtown-parking-validation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">See the full list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get ready to park it. Over the next 10 weeks, patrons at participating Downtown businesses will be eligible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-177079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}