I continued my charging station hunt last night:
1) North Hills charging stations are still under wraps (and currently ICEd, of course there is no reason for cars NOT to park there now I suppose). I'll have to contact them again and ask what the holdup is now.
2) On a tip from a City employee, I "found: 2 new charging stations at the Municipal Deck (entrances on Morgan Street and McDowell Street). Charging stations are just to the right after you go up the ramp to the ticket booth:
This unit was exactly like the one I found at Optimist Park (with card reader) but it started charging immediately (no card is required). This deck is very convenient to the Flying Saucer where we went and had dinner and beers at got 7.6kWh of juice during our 2 hour stay. Parking was $2, but the charging was free! Considering we usually park in the lot adjacent to the Saucer for $3, we came out well ahead for the one block walk.
The deck was pretty much deserted at 6:00pm (on a Thursday) so there was no trouble with the spots being ICEd. The signage is pretty good, although it doesn't specifically say "EV Parking Only". I suggested to the person from the city that they paint the spots green and she said that was coming, but right now they are concentrating on just getting the charging stations installed. She also said there is no ordinance that allows them to limit parking to just EVs at this time.
After leaving that deck, I noticed the two chargers on Hargett Street (these are on various charging station maps). These are a different brand (Eaton--like the ones at North Hills). Plugging in and charging was no problem, and for the most part all the spots here were empty (this is on the north west corner of Nash Square by the way) at 8:00pm:
Signage was exactly the same as in the parking deck. HOWEVER, as this picture shows out of all the spots available, the SUV in the foreground chose to park in one of the 2 EV charging spots!
If this kind of thing happens again I'll try to remember to plug in with the RIGHT hand charging station so that if another EV pulls up they can plug into the EVSE in front of where my car is parked at least.