How much is parking tier 2?

EXPAND PARKING costs $600 and takes parking from 2 spaces to 4 spaces.

How do I unlock the HQ upgrade?

The HQ panel lists Lot Expansion 1 and Parking Tier 2 as requirements, and shows REQUIREMENTS NOT MET until both are done.

Run a Christmas Tree Lot Upgrades: Parking, Lot and HQ

The three upgrade tracks

The Land panel holds three blocks stacked in order: Lot Expansion, Parking, then HQ. The caption reads "Grow the land, the parking and the HQ. Each one is built right on your lot." Each block shows what you have, what comes next, and a price or a requirement list.

They are not three flavours of the same upgrade. Lot expansion buys storage and display room. Parking buys car spaces. The HQ buys team size, checkout stations, new tree stock and customer patience. Different problems, different prices.

The Land panel: lot expansion at $1,200 with a Not enough cash note, parking at $600 for 2 to 4 spaces, and the HQ block listing four unlocks and two unmet requirements

What parking and lot expansion cost

Land panel item	Price	What it changes
Expand parking, tier 1 → tier 2	$600	`2 Spaces → 4 Spaces`
Expand lot, starter → expansion 1	$1,200	`+ More display space behind the HQ · +10 delivery storage`

Delivery storage starts at 30 trees. After the first lot expansion, the order panel reads Delivery area: 0 / 40 free, so the extra 10 slots are real and they are the thing that lets one crate carry more.

Lot expansion also advances a counter: the panel read Starter Lot (0/6) with Expansion 1 · Back Lot next. Six stages exist. Only stage one had a price on screen.

When cash is short, the button does not hide: it stays visible with a red Not enough cash underneath. That is the cheapest way to learn what the next track costs — open the panel and read the red line before you spend.

What the HQ unlocks

The HQ block is a list, not a price. Next tier CHRISTMAS PAVILION reads:

4 new trees
2 Checkout Stations
3 Employee Capacity
Customer Patience +12%

Those four lines explain what the other two tracks cannot buy. More tree varieties mean a wider crate. Two checkout stations mean the queue can clear in parallel. Three employee capacity is the third hire that the TEAM FULL message keeps pointing at. Patience is the one number here that touches customers rather than you.

Why the HQ cannot be bought first

The requirements block is explicit: Lot Expansion 1 · 0/1 and Parking Tier 2 · 2/4 Spaces. Until both read complete, the button says REQUIREMENTS NOT MET and no price appears at all.

So the order writes itself when the HQ is your goal: $600 parking, then $1,200 lot, then the HQ. That is $1,800 before the building itself, and the building's price is not on screen.

If the HQ is not your goal, the order is different. Short on storage → lot. Short on car spaces → parking. Neither → keep the cash for trees.

What to skip, and when

Skip parking if the lot never fills up. What the spaces hold was not shown in any panel this site read — cars or staff, it was never labelled — so buy parking when you want the HQ, not because you assume it clears a queue. If the queue is at the register, parking changes nothing.

Skip the lot if your crates are small. Ten extra storage slots do nothing for a five-tree order.

Skip both if the money would otherwise go into the next crate. An empty lot sells nothing, and storage you cannot fill is not an upgrade.

Two things this page cannot tell you: the HQ price, and the prices for parking tier 3 and lot expansion stages 2–6. Open the Land panel and photograph each block to close those gaps.

Once the expansion lands, the extra display space changes how a layout fits — Run a Christmas Tree Lot Layout Ideas covers the three starter plans. If the third hire is what you are actually after, Run a Christmas Tree Lot Workers explains when a hire beats a building.