PARKING TODAY NEWS Standard Parking Corp.
announced its 2010 second-quarter results on Aug. 4 in Chicago. Net income attributable to the company increased 7%, compared with the year- ago quarter, to $4.5million, or $0.28 per share. Earnings per share increased 4% over the second quarter of 2009. In mid- June, the company also announced that Nationwide Realty Investors (NRI) had extended its contract to manage NRI’s Arena District Parking Portfolio. The Arena District contains more than 10,700 parking spaces in 10 garages and seven surface lots inColumbus,
OH.The district’s parking facilities service more than 2million square feet of commercial office and retail space, 150 residential condominiums, and 100 apartments. The three-story, solar-powered Old
TownGarage, opened earlier this year in Temecula, CA, provides more than 450 much needed parking spaces for visitors to the city’s Historic Old Town District. The structure also will serve the new Civic Center next door slated to open this month. PublicWorks Director Greg Butler told The Californian newspaper:
“We did notwant to create just this block structure.We wanted to mask it a bit so that it blends in with the (area’sMission Revival) architecture.…It’s one of the best-looking parking garages I’ve seen.” Watry Design partnered with Nichols, Melburg&RossettoArchitects tomeet the challenges of this project. Butler said the $15 million garage had come in roughly on time and under budget. Smart Marketing Concepts
launched the first-of-its-kind embedded centralized reservations engine in June at A1 Express Airport Parking near Tampa InternationalAirport in Florida. It enablesTampa Bay-area residents and businesses to go online and reserve parking space in advance at the best available rate. The company says its software preserves many of the benefits of travel websites such as real-time rates, space availability and instant con- firmation. Revenue management fea- tures are designed to allow an operator to compete at a higher level while offer- ing additional products and services – carwash, car detail, oil change – in a sin- gle transaction.
Lee Anne Dixon, P.E., has joined
theWalter PMoore Traffic Engineer- ing Services Group in Houston. She brings more than 13 years of experience in transportation planning and traffic operations, focusing on solutions that improve safety and mobility. Her strong working knowledge of traffic operations software has been applied tomultimodal centers, airports, downtown cores, as well as suburban environments. Spancrete, the leader in the pre-
cast/prestressed concrete industry, recently promoted Jim Clapper, J.P. Nolan and Scott Bertschinger to key leadership roles. Spancrete says the pro- motions reflect its focus on changing market dynamics and internal improve- ments, and realign the company on key business segments related to building, transportation and infrastructure. At the invitation of the UN Project
onGovernance,TimothyH.Haahs, PE, AIA, President of Timothy Haahs & Associates, recently spoke at a UN con- ference in South Korea hosted by its Ministry of Environment. The forum, featuring the theme “City Development
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