WRAP Parking awarded Downtown Wichita project Exchange Place Apartments

WRAP Parking will be supplying futuristic semi-automated parking equipment for the Exchange Place Apartment project in Kansas. The Wichita Eagle is covering the story and you can read more here. Read more

How to Uncover a “Staged” Automated Parking System Demonstration

I think we all know that it is possible to “stage” the demonstration of new parking technology so the system appears to be fully functional, when in fact it is still very far from that reality. To ensure you are making an educated evaluation, follow these suggestions to fully test a new system:

Council OKs $45 million for downtown Wichita projects

The Wichita City Council on Tuesday took another step toward bringing 230 more apartments and a 273-space automated parking garage to downtown Wichita. The council approved up to $45 million in industrial revenue bonds and up to $12.5 million in tax increment financing to help push forward a $60 million-plus plan to renovate the vacant […]

Boomerang Systems Commences Implementation of Automated Parking Facility

Construction has commenced inside the structure that will house an automated robotic parking system at the new 304- unit Costa Hollywood Condominium Resort. In addition to providing a unique luxury amenity that compliments the resort’s other array of upscale features it is a space saving technology permitting the developer to more efficiently, effectively and economically utilize its allowable building […]

RoboticValet® system Chosen for Student Housing Project at University of Illinois.

Boomerang Systems, Inc., (OTCQB: BMER) the pioneer designer and manufacturer of fully-automated robotic parking systems, announced today that it has executed an agreement to provide 240 parking spaces using the revolutionary RoboticValet® Parking System, to be incorporated into a student housing project on East Green Street in Champaign, Illinois. 

Boston’s first parking-free condo development given the green light

The Boston Redevelopment Authority voted to change previously approved plans, eliminating a 315-space robotic parking garage. Developer Related Beal had asserted parking and transportation demand could be met by surrounding garages and transit services.

Bond Financing Approved For WeHo Mid-City Robo-Garage

West Hollywood’s City Council unanimously approved sale of $20.5 million in bonds August 20th  to finance the robotic parking garage to be built behind the City Hall building at 8300 Santa Monica Blvd. at Sweetzer.

More Common Overseas, Automated Parking Garages are Popping Up in the US

There’s a new perk in high-end apartment buildings—fully robotic parking lots. No more careless valet dinging the Rolls at 1706 Rittenhouse, Philadelphia. Tenants pull their car onto a lift and the system takes it from there. When a tenant wants to leave, they swipe a special fob, and the system locates and retrieves their car. […]

Robotic Parking coming to American Cities- smaller footprint will help CRE Development

Robotic parking can reduce the footprint of a parking garage, cut pollution and traffic congestion, and make room for more commercial real estate (CRE) development, according to industry experts. “There is an explosion of innovation and creativity that has entered the parking industry in the last 10 or 15 years, robotic parking being one of […]

Rise of the Machines: Robotic Garage will North America’s largest

It’s not the set of the latest Terminator movie, but the automated garage slated for Willoughby Square Park in Downtown Brooklyn represents the future of parking. Perry Finkelman, CEO of Automation, talks of designing machines, manipulating machines—even machines that send text messages. It’s not Rise of the Machines he speaks of … not exactly. But the technology that […]