| Structured Parking Solutions, LLC | 2001 N. Palafox Street, Suite 201 | Pensacola, Florida 32501-2144 | (251) 320.8164 |
Services
sectors
SPS can perform Market Demand Studies for projects ranging in size from an office building to a city’s parking requirements. Our demand studies can also include site analysis recommendations and site selection services.
Growth and associated scarcity of available real estate drives the need for structured parking. SPS provides master planning in two modes: as a site or campus master planner and as the access/parking component of a master planning team. A campus may refer to any collection of buildings for office, medical, educational, or general assemblage.
Capacity - Based Campus Planning: This approach to site planning is used to establish a campus’ ultimate development capacity and to maximize its remaining real estate build-out options. Optimizing campus revenue potential is directly correlated with the amount of revenue-producing, buildable area and allowable density in relation to appropriately located, sized, and phased parking capacity. This cost-effective approach to master site planning is an effective way to evaluate the merits of various scenarios and development opportunities in times of flux or uncertainty.
Many companies offer professional design services geared toward parking facilities. SPS is in a specialized group that offers quality design services as well as construction and financing services. Due to our construction related experience, SPS will provide design services to our clients that will meet their budgetary limitations.
In addition, our experience in the banking and bonding markets, coupled with our experience in parking facility management and maintenance, enables SPS to provide feedback and aid in preparation of a pro forma.
SPS recognizes banking and financing standards have changed over the years. As a result, we have developed relationships with capital partners we can leverage for unique financing options. These options can provide:
Our financing options are applicable to higher educational institutions, hospitals, local and federal government, and private developments.
Parking architecture requires a thorough understanding of many levels of design. Comprehensive understanding of local and regional codes and entitlement requirements is essential. Necessary interpretation of how the parking garage will need to function based on who is parking when and how they use the garage, and knowledge of different vehicle types, dimensions, and tolerances is vital. Having this knowledge, including the geometrics of vehicle navigation in a structure combined with human perception and operating limitations while traveling in a parking garage is crucial. In addition, understanding how a garage is constructed is critical to the design process to ensure construction efficiencies at the lowest costs possible. Successful parking facility design is a specialty that requires architects and engineers with specific expertise in parking requirements, large building architecture, and experience with multiple construction techniques.
With experience designing over 450 parking structures, SPS professionals understand that the varied needs of parking patrons influence the configuration of parking elements. Hospital patrons may need additional room to exit vehicles and enter vertical transportation areas. Retail patrons desire proximity to their destination via multiple connection points. Office patrons are focused on office entrance convenience. Hotel guests need clear and frequent signage. Each of these parking behaviors is addressed with subtle design modifications for a successful parking structure.
Parking facilities are not only functional areas where drivers park and become pedestrians, but they are also opportunities to create a first impression. Therefore, the design of a parking facility is an important component of the “front door” to a development. Typically, parking is the first and last experience people engage in as they travel.
SPS professionals have designed over 450 parking structures over the decades. In this time, we have learned the most efficient and timely solutions to structured parking challenges. This knowledge is used to produce economical, structurally efficient parking.
We use our experience to optimize the structural efficiencies and to minimize the core structure’s cost per space. We work closely with our architects to create aesthetically and contextually appropriate design solutions incorporating cost-effective best practices.
For precast concrete parking structures, our engineering team members are uniquely capable of performing the specialty engineering services coupled with the engineer-of-record services for a project. This allows the preparation of erection and shop drawings to be accomplished as the contract documents are being prepared for permitting. This service can reduce a project’s schedule by months.
Our engineering staff has spent many years inspecting parking structures of varying ages. This experience gives us the knowledge to help our clients select the proper maintenance program to insure the longest life at the lowest cost. Parking structures can be low-maintenance, but never no-maintenance. However, the associated costs can be minimized and controlled.
SPS can provide project management services, representing the owner’s interest during construction. Our team members are well versed in providing leadership with general contractors for the specialized construction of elevated parking structures. SPS provides construction support services from the perspective of the owner, contractor, design professional, and precast manufacturer.