UCLA Medical Center to get 250-car eValet Parking `System

UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, CA is going to be using an automated parking system referred to as eValet which has been engineered and built by Criterion Manufacturing Solutions out of West Michigan. 

Canada’s first automated parking garage to be maintained by Neutron and Bosa

When Bosa needed to find a local contractor to provide annual maintenance and rapid response EM service to Canada’s first automated parking garage located at the brand new Jamieson Place project in Vancouver, it didn’t take long for them to decide on Neutron. As the only contractor in BC to provide mechanical, electrical, programming and […]

Santa Monica Medical Building first of kind to offer automated parking

Excerpt from How Parking Impacts Your Medical Practice  In general, parking structures are less appealing to patients, doctors and support staff. They can be confusing if they are poorly designed, making it hard for your patients to find elevators and remember the level where they parked. Lighting and cleanliness also is a greater concern with […]

Condos with Automated Parking approved for FHA loans

Axis San Francisco, a boutique collection of 26 luxury condominiums for sale located in Downtown San Francisco on the south-east corner of Bush and Larkin, is now approved for FHA lending. FHA loans allow buyers to purchase a new luxury condo with as little as 3.5% down. This, coupled with interest rates at historic lows, […]

Paranoia-Free Parking – 3 Years and All Good

If you’ve ever had the dubious pleasure of being a monthly customer at a New York City parking garage, you’re probably aware that the price—approximately that of a roomy one-bedroom in any other metropolitan area—is only the start-up cost. You’ve also got to suffer the opprobrium of the attendants if you give them less than […]

Old Capital Green development features ‘Green’ Garage

An automated parking garage with robot valets is one of the features of a $27 million proposed parking structure and communal air-conditioning unit to accommodate the $1.3 billion Old Capitol Green development in downtown Jackson. Courtesy Boomerang Systems Old Capitol Green developer Full Spectrum South proposes to build a parking garage using robot valets to […]

The parking robots are coming.

Over the past decade, automated parking systems have become quite common in Europe and Asia, where land use constraints are tighter and many areas more congested than the US. The number of automobiles produced worldwide may actually be on the decline, but we still crank out over 50 million cars each year. Along with the new trend of […]

Meet 1706 Rittenhouse’s Robot Garage

Inquirer real estate reporter Alan Heavens takes a look at 1706 Rittenhouse Square Street‘s Jetsons-like automated parking system.Heavens writes that after a resident drives his car onto a pallet in the building, “the system takes the car and its pallet automatically to the nearest empty space on one of four levels below. On the way […]

Coming Soon: Robots Parking Cars in West Hollywood, Calif.

If you can imagine a parking garage with a valet service run by robots, then you have a good idea of what’s up the road in West Hollywood, Calif. In June, city officials plan to issue a request for qualifications (RFQ) for the city’s first fully automated parking garage for City Hall visitors, staff and […]

How Mechanization Can Help Cities Rethink Parking

Unsightly and space-consuming, parking is nonetheless a key component for most urban development. But the rise in innovative parking solutions and mechanization technologies is poised to transform the parking garage from an eyesore into a cohesive element in any sustainable, walkable and livable project. The parking garage is a frequently contentious and often maligned building […]