IPMI & Member News
By Cindy Campbell California state lawmaker Bill Quirk was recognized by the California Public Parking Association during its recent annual conference, where the CPPA named him 2016 Legislator of the Year. CPPA lauded Quirk for his work on legislation that allows insurers to offer a discount on a property owner’s Read More »
When the Today Show decides to dress up and spread holiday cheer, what costume do they pick? A parking professional, of course! Host Hoda Kotb geared up as a parking enforcement officer and handed out lots of fun “tickets” to unsuspecting New Yorkers this morning, with terrific results. Check out Read More »
By Dave Hill, CAPP I have worked for a lot of people in my career—some pretty smart and some less so—but I have learned something from each of them. One of my bosses told me once, “You cannot manage what you cannot measure,” and that has stuck with me. When Read More »
By Robert Fries, CAPP We can all agree that parking garages can be utilitarian, stark, and visually unappealing at times. Whether it is design, cost constraints, or construction limitations, function can override form and result in a structure without its own unique character or a lively and inviting sense of place. Read More »
’Tis the season for shopping, merriment, and packed parking lots. Some shopping centers and municipalities are taking matters into their own hands, launching seasonal apps to help customers find parking. Rivertown Crossings Mall in Grandville, Mich., added a parking feature to its app this month to help shoppers find parking Read More »
By Michelle W. Jones, CMP Many of you will remember that the IPI Conference & Expo held earlier this year in Nashville oversold its sleeping room block until the hotel was completely sold out. While it’s great to fill our contracted sleeping room block, we don’t want our attendees having Read More »
IPI’s panel of experts answer a question in every issue of The Parking Professional. Here’s a recent question and some great answers—check out more here. We hear a lot about shared parking, especially in urban areas. How is it actually working? Leonard T. Bier, CAPP, JD Principal Bier Associates Shared Read More »
By Faith Altman The Lancaster County Amish are the oldest and largest Amish settlement in the U.S. The Old Order Amish generally live in the southern end of Lancaster County. When traveling through this area, you seem to step back in time and enjoy a much slower pace—the horse and Read More »
By Lauren Nelson It took a bit of persuasion but a beautiful mural in an usually overlooked area is becoming a tourist attraction. Garage placemaking is a trend sweeping the parking industry. Stimulated by the green garage movement Parksmart, the idea of placemaking helps people see the garage as part Read More »
The holiday shopping season has officially kicked off and that means more demand for parking at malls and in busy downtown areas. In Illinois, it also means a crackdown on illegal users of parking spaces reserved for the disabled. Secretary of State Jesse White announced stepped-up enforcement efforts throughout the Read More »
IPI members are invited to participate in a 10-minute questionnaire to provide data about parking garage and lot lighting inventory to the U.S. Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting Program. Data will be part of the next update to the Lighting Market Characterization, which provides an estimated lighting inventory of installed Read More »
By Donald Shoup The most emotional topic in transportation planning is parking. When it comes to parking, rational people quickly become emotional and staunch conservatives turn into ardent communists. Critical and analytic faculties seem to shift to a lower level when thinking about parking. Some people strongly support market prices—except Read More »
