IPMI & Member News
By Kathleen Federici, MEd. After four years. the location of my son’s elementary school bus stop was changed from a four-minute walk around the block to a 12-minute walk two streets away. And to make it more stressful, our beloved drop-off and pick-up bus driver was changed and we now Read More »
Long lines of cars waiting to park, security all over the place, sharpshooters on rooftops, secure areas, and accommodating a lot more people than usual, not all of whom are happy: This is what it looks like when the President visits a college campus. Josh Cantor, director of parking and Read More »
By Frank Giles So, have you heard the one about the lady trying to pull into a parking space? Of course you have. We have all heard the female-driver jokes at one time or another. They may be insensitive and stereotypical but no one takes them seriously, right? Apparently some Read More »
Forget something for your tailgate? If you’re a San Francisco 49ers fan, it’s no worries—Amazon’s on it. The NFL team this year worked out a partnership with Amazon Prime to deliver game-day essentials to specific Levi’s Stadium parking spaces before home games. Forget that extra cooler? Need a team sweatshirt? Read More »
By Kim Fernandez “Mrs Fernandez, I’m getting your car!” I was still walking up the driveway of the Washington Plaza Hotel after lunch the other day when Zion called out to me. We’d just met 90 minutes earlier when I’d pulled up and showed her my parking reservation and now, Read More »
By Scott Kangas, CAPP My father was a safety engineer for insurance companies most of his adult life. His job was to evaluate the risk factor (or potential businesses losses) from an insurance standpoint. Because of this constant exposure and frequent dinner-table discussions, I picked up a variety of tidbits Read More »
ParkHouston services and maintains 9,500 parking spaces throughout the greater Houston area. When the organization decided to measure its effectiveness as compared with other parking organizations, earning IPI’s Accredited Parking Organization (APO) certification was a natural direction. “Reviewing the matrix gave us the opportunity to identify our strengths and areas Read More »
Winters, Calif., is a tiny speck of a town whose charming, four-block-long business district found itself with a parking problem. Tourists discovered its beauty and hung around in on-street spaces so long that locals couldn’t conduct their normal business. As parking professionals can predict, debates ensued—what to do? Enter the Read More »
By Helen Sullivan, APR, Fellow PRSA Seventeen of your fellow IPI members are talking about you – yes, you– the IPI community of parking professionals that so generously join together to learn, advise, share, solve problems, advance the profession, and just plain have fun being part of one of the most Read More »
By Monica Arpino What do a dog park, art installation, and yoga studio all have in common? If you said they’re all delightful gathering spaces, you’re correct but not quite on track. They all found temporary homes in metered parking spots, as part of the annual worldwide experiment known as Read More »
Maybe you’ve heard about IPI’s Accredited Parking Organization (APO) designation for parking organizations that have achieved a comprehensive standard of excellence, and maybe you’ve thought about starting down the road to APO for your own organization. So what’s stopping you? The Miami Parking Authority (MPA) earned APO as part of Read More »
Teen Vogue just called a group of parking spaces “masterpieces.” OMG! You might have seen the story floating around social media: A high school in Florida had a lot of fun and raised a little money letting seniors custom-paint their parking spaces. The program was a huge hit, both among Read More »
