An anonymous reader passes along the following:

The focal point of all seated on the relatively nice new grand plaza steps was…a surface parking lot. Free parking to boot. Seemingly this parking was being used for the Caribou Coffee that is part of the station development and located on the other side of the bridge. There are two (!) curb cuts on 6th avenue within 20 feet of each other giving access to this area and the structured parking under the bridge. There is actually a posted sign in front of Caribou designating an undetermined number of parking places for their business.

This at what is probably the metro’s second largest/most expensive transit station.