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Featured · Property
Playbook - making the best use of your parking space
Hybrid work is real, but tidy spreadsheets about who's in on which day rarely survive Monday morning. People swap days, someone wakes up sick, a client lunch appears. Here's how Revlon, REA Group, Xero and NY Creates treat parking as flexible capacity that follows the rhythm of t
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Maximizing Revenue and Tenant Satisfaction: The Top 5 Commercial Parking Platforms in 2026
Hybrid work has permanently changed commercial real estate. Are your parking lots hurting your tenant experience or draining your Net Operating Income? Explore our 2026 guide to the top 5 commercial Parking Management Software (PMS) platforms, and learn how industry leaders like
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How to earn from public parking during vacancy
When an anchor tenant moves out, the car park goes quiet—but costs don’t. Lease-up or refurb can leave rows of spaces unused for weeks. Because standard tools don’t flex to tenants and public parking: fixed rules meet wobbly demand, teams juggle swipe cards and spreadsheets, and
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Featured · Workplace
Hybrid working and tenant parking preferences
Parking needs to flex quickly and easily to meet the demands of tenants who work flexibly. But what does this look like in practice? To answer this, we reviewed our workplace parking data collected from hundreds of workplaces and thousands of parkers across the USA, U.K., Austral
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How painful commutes affect staff retention and recruitment
Sitting in traffic. Searching for a park. Missing the bus. Standing on a crowded train. For many people, the morning commute is a low point, & for those with long commutes, there’s added risk of obesity, loneliness, divorce, & insomnia.
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Panache implements tech solution to combat limited office parking
Panache, a video game start-up based in Montreal, Canada, wanted to make it easier for employees to park at the office so they decided to source more parking spaces. Despite this, they still had fewer parking spaces than they did employee members and it became challenging for emp
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Latest
From complaints to 4.7x ROI: The parking fix quietly winning the hearts of tenants
Seattle landlords are in a high-stakes battle for tenants and every advantage matters. With downtown office vacancy topping 32%, owners are pouring millions into rooftop terraces and high-end lobbies. But many are missing one of the most powerful (and profitable) levers hiding in
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The Parking Lever Boosting NOI for Smart Chicago Landlords
Hybrid work broke the old parking playbook. Now, forward-thinking Chicago landlords are reimagining parking—not as a sunk cost, but as a strategic lever for NOI, tenant satisfaction, and operational efficiency. Discover how smarter parking is turning underused space into asset pe
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From parking friction to 5 star first impressions. Urban innovations small shift for a big tenant win
Forward-thinking landlords like Urban Innovations are transforming overlooked spaces into strategic wins. At 311 W Huron, they turned parking from a friction point into a five-star first impression—boosting tenant satisfaction, unlocking new revenue, and reducing operational burd
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Five reasons why your tenants will be happy that you’re going digital in the car park
A great parking experience makes tenants feel heard and valued, and in the long run, they are more likely to renew their leases. Outdated parking systems are falling short. Discover how digital parking tools influence tenant happiness, create fairness, and positively impact occup
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New digital parking amenity squeezing more value from Australia’s multi-tenant buildings
Parkable, the team behind the successful parking platform that helps workplaces manage employee parking, has launched a new digital offering that improves the value of multi-tenant office buildings, potentially to the tune of $90 million in additional revenue in Melbourne alone.
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Parkable appoints Bruce Gordon as Chair
New Zealand parking tech company Parkable has appointed Bruce Gordon to Chair of its Advisory Board, effective April 2nd 2024. Bruce takes over from early stage investor David Brain who has chaired the board since 2020. Brain remains on the Advisory Board together with Jason Kilg
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