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 […]

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. 

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. […]

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 […]

You Tube: West Hollywood Automated Parking Garage

Tracy Savage speaks with Don Monahan, VP of Walker Parking Consultants about the West Hollywood City Hall Automated Garage and Community Plaza Project. The City of West Hollywood has contracted with Unitronics to design, engineer, fabricate, install and maintain a 200-car automated vehicle storage and retrieval system.

West Hollywood moves forward with plans for ‘robo-garage’ while opposition launches petition

West Hollywood City Council voted to go forward with the design phase of the automated parking garage planned for behind city hall at their July meeting.  The robo-garage, which the City Council first unanimously voted to build at its May 2, 2011 meeting, will offer a valet-like experience where people leave their cars and the […]

How Robots in Parking Garages Can Advance New Urbanism

Robotics and information technology are migrating off the factory floor and appearing in the most remarkable places. Boomerang Systems, an exhibitor at the Congress for the New Urbanism conference last week, outfits garages with automated parking systems. In projects where construction costs are high or land is valuable, it can make economic sense for property […]

Robot Valets Make This The Coolest Parking Garage Ever

A condo building under construction in Miami just might threaten the city’s infamous army of valets — with glowing robots that summon cars by text message. In true over-the-top Miami fashion, the Brickell House condo — which breaks ground this summer — will contain a $6.5 million automated parking garage with Roomba-like robot platforms moving […]

Boomerang Systems’ Robotic Valet chosen for the Old Capital Green redevelopment

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Boomerang Systems, Inc., (OTCQB: BMER) a leading designer and manufacturer of fully automated robotic parking and self-storage systems, today announces that they have been chosen to provide a 480-space automated parking garage as part of the initial phase of the Old Capitol Green redevelopment project located in Jackson, MS. […]