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. […]

Innovative RoboticValet(TM) Parking System to be used at the Grand Hotel in Hollywood Beach, Florida.

Development on the Grand Hotel in Hollywood, FL has just restarted after a long hiatus during which the property’s current owner, Liberty Sites, Ltd., purchased the site out of foreclosure.  Moses Bensusan, CEO of Liberty Sites which is a leading Canadian real estate developer, stated, “Our overall project concept is very contemporary, progressive, and forward […]

Boardwalk condo complex and robotic parking garage proposed next to Revel casino project

Developer Chip Pressman wants to build South Jersey’s first automated parking garage as part of a proposed 30-story condominium complex overlooking the Boardwalk in the resort’s South Inlet neighborhood. The Metropolitan project would consist of 124 condominiums, a robot-operated parking system [Boomerang System’s RoboticValet™] and 4,400 square feet of retail space opening onto the Boardwalk […]

The Historical Society of Martin County Selects Boomerang Systems for new Elliot Museum

Boomerang Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: BMER) a leading designer and manufacturer of automated robotic parking and self-storage systems announces that construction has begun on the new Elliot Museum, which will feature a 55-space fully automated parking system supplied by Boomerang to display the Stuart, Florida museum’s antique car collection. The Elliott Museum was originally founded in […]

1.2 million spaces but nowhere to park

I was recently reminded of the phrase “the cobbler’s children have no shoes“, referring to a phenomena where people who are successful at doing something but don’t demonstrate that in their own backyard, or in this case, their parking lot. An article in The Tennessean tells how Central Parking, a company which has 2,500 parking […]

Automated Parking Systems Receiving City Approvals

As mentioned in an earlier post, approval from fire departments on the safety of automated parking is intergral in getting a project off the ground. An article in Build LA, the monthly newsletter of the LA Department of Building and Safety, explains more about how automated parking structures, widely accepted in Europe and Japan, are becoming […]

It’s safety first with Automated, Robotic Parking

I read an article the other day whose opening line was “Next time you barricade yourself inside a parking garage with an AK-47, keep an eye out for the flying garbage can.”   The Miami-Dade Police Department has received the first permit issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly two robotic planes that would allow […]

Inauguration for automated eight-floor parking facility ‘South Square’ at Sarojini Nagar

India inaugurated the 824 space, automated parking garage at Sarojini Nagar today.  Developed by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) under public-private partnership with real estate developers DLF Limited, they will offer free parking space to shoppers at Sarojini Nagar Market for the first 20 days, as part of a real-time trial of the fully […]