A city council parking building closed since the start of March for maintenance is expected to be closed for more than three months.
The Napier City Council has confirmed work on the two-level Tiffen Park building, off Tennyson St, with 121 spaces for mainly casual parking next to the Municipal Theatre, won't be completed until about mid-June.
The bottom deck has been wrapped in plastic since the start of last week to prevent spray drift during paint removal and repainting.
When announcing the closure via its Facebook page on March 2, the council said the upper, open floor was being closed until mid-May "while we give it a thorough makeover".
There was some jack-hammer work on the top deck in March, and soda-blasting, last week, both loudly heard across the inner-city and the surrounding hill suburb during the daytime, but the council insists there is no structural or restrengthening work, and that the building meets the rating of 100 per cent according to National Building Standards.