Market Place Garage Imperial Parking

Non-​working machines and suspicious business practices. Stay away.

Run by Republic Parking Northwest which has a bad reputation and wish I had read reviews. Obviously the company doesn’t read reviews or perhaps they would rethink the way they operate or perhaps they just don’t care?. Decided to park close to Pike Place and chose this parking place — BIG MISTAKE! Once in, a security guard told every person leaving where to go to pay our ticket which was good because there were no signs I could see. Spaces are small. Came back to pay and our ticket was not accepted in the machine (bad ticket). Tried calling for assistance much to the amusement of all around because the equipment was so bad we couldn’t understand a word of what was said. No-​one was available to come to our assistance because there are no staff there. Went back to the security guard and he suggested we go to the exit and ask for assistance there. Blocking traffic while it was sorted out with angry drivers (because you only get 15 mins to get out of the garage once you have paid). Received a statement via email with an extra $ 2.50 online charge because of their faulty tickets not working. Not ever using Republic Parking again and will find alternative parking even if that facility is close. Just not worth the aggravation! I expected to pay more for parking close to Pike Place but the cost was not worth it — $ 19.50 for 4 hours!

Convenient location right next to Pike Place Market. I went on a Monday at 10AM and there was plenty of parking. I didn’t check the price because I just wanted to find the closest parking lot by Pike Place. When I left, I was ready to pay a jaw-​dropping number. However, when I left 5 hours later, it was only $ 11. That’s reasonable for where it is!
Elevator is very clean and nice. I usually expect old and gross from parking garage elevators.
The location is really noisy, though, being right next to the highway.

SCAM ARTISTS — BEWARE!!! I parked here early in the morning thinking I would only be at the market a few hours for work. I returned to the entrance ramp 8 hours later and there was a security guard who told me I had to go to the other entrance a block away and pay there before returning to my car, even though my car was only a few feet away on the other side of the gate. I explained to him that I’d left my ticket in the car, and he reluctantly let me through. I walked all the way to the other end of the garage and paid my $ 17 ticket at the automatic machine and started walking back to my car.
On the way, I received a call that I had to return to work. Unsure what to do, I walked back to the ticket booth at the exit and asked the woman standing there if I needed a new ticket, and she told me I’m just to use the same ticket and explain the situation to the attendant on the way out. So I left the garage and went back to work.
5 hours later I returned to the garage, inserted the ticket in the machine and it said I owed $ 19 — on top of what I’d already paid! Surely I figured this was an error so I got back in my car to leave. When I arrived at the booth to exit, there was nobody there except the automatic machine. I inserted the ticket, $ 19. I pressed the button for help and finally an unintelligible voice came over the speaker and I tried to explain what happened. The voice said something in broken English that I took to mean I could leave. When the gate didn’t open, I asked «So, I still have to pay?» to which he replied «yes.» I reinserted the ticket, which said $ 19 again. I asked why I had to pay $ 19 on top of the $ 17 I already paid when my car had only been there another 5 hours. He quickly rattled off about a rule on a sign as I came in that makes it okay for them to do that.
Frustrated and now worried about the line of cars building behind me, I reluctantly paid the bill as I was literally trapped with nobody to actually help me. I certainly would not be alone in thinking that $ 36 is an absolutely ludicrous amount of money to pay to park a car for 12 hours, and it is well above the amount posted in the garage to park for 24 hours. In my experience, all of the lots in this area are run by rude, angry people that use misleading signage and the language barrier to their advantage to squeeze a few more bucks out of you. Next time I’ll take my chances on the street.
Also — I would strongly suggest not parking in this neighborhood if you’re with a family. Steinbrueck Park (that you have to walk past to get to the market) is notorious for drugs and shady characters. Once when returning to the garage with my younger sister, there were a pair of drunks urinating on the sidewalk in front of the entrance.

Terrible experience parking here. We parked on March 9 (a Saturday but not during the height of the tourist season or anything). It took us ONE HOUR to exit the garage. There was only one exit open and only one attendant. We weren’t even that far down in the garage. The line to exit went on forever. I have never had a worse time trying to exit from a garage, ever. And we’ve parked in many downtown Seattle garages. We parked here to be close to the Market (we had visiting relatives and were doing the tourist thing) but never will again. My husband parked in a different lot closer to the ferry terminal and not only did he pay about ¹⁄₃ of what we did, he was out of the garage in less than 5 minutes. This was ridiculous.

This parking garage is near Pike Place Market and makes your car accessible and nearby. There is plenty of room and seemed to be safe. That said the prices are expensive and no validation. The 4 to nearly 5 hours we spent cost us $ 17.00. The 9.5% tax plus a «pkgtax» of 12.5% seem incredibly high. What is a pkg tax? Anyhow, we knew it would be hard to park there around the busy market, otherwise, and it was, so we went for this.

Tons of parking and relatively inexpensive. I always park here to be close to the market and be able to walk back and forth from my car while shopping. 2 hours is around 11 bucks