Driving down to the Tennessee riverfront area to eat lunch or hang out during peak times of the day may now cost you $9 if you park for more than two hours.
Four Republic lots near the Tennessee Aquarium and downtown riverfront restaurants now charge $9 for anything over two hours. The aquarium-owned parking lot in front of the River Journey building has done the same.
After 4 p.m., though, the Republic rates drop to $6 for more than two hours, while the aquarium lot spaces drop to $5.
Republic Parking officials did not respond to several efforts to obtain comment from them for this story.
A Republic parking attendant, Coty McWain, said the fees remain $5 a day at the parking lots farther away from the aquarium that don’t have credit-card payment machines.