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How The Mixed-Use 'dot' Parking Structure Will Change Downtown Ferndale

On today's show we focus on everyone's favorite suburb, Funky/Fabulous/Fashionable Ferndale. There, the city is preparing to break ground on a $28 million mixed-use parking structure adorably named "the dot" — short for "development on Troy" Street.

It's a major development for the city, nearly tripling parking capacity on the site, adding four stories plus one underground level of parking, adding more than 11,000 square feet of new retail space and, possibly, new office space and housing. But it also means taking downtown Ferndale's busiest parking lot offline for more than a year, adding to…

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