City of West Hollywood Automated Parking Garage Demo

The City of West Hollywood has awarded a $2.6 million contract to Unitronics to design, engineer, fabricate, install and maintain a 200-car automated vehicle storage and retrieval system for the West Hollywood City Hall Automated Garage and Community Plaza Project which will be located at 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard.

"City staff, residents and the City Council continue to work in upgrading the city's infrastructure to make sure our city meets the needs of a dynamic community," said West Hollywood Mayor John J. Duran. "The expansion of City Hall and the building of the new automated parking garage not only will provide for a better experience to residents and visitors, it will also provide for much needed additional parking while reducing the carbon footprint that a "traditional" parking structure would generate otherwise," added Mayor Duran.

Automated parking garages can hold as many as three times the number of cars as traditional ramp-style parking garages. Operationally, automated parking garages provide customers with a valet-like parking experience that is fast, safe, and convenient. They are also less expensive to build when compared to conventional parking garages. Automated parking garages utilize computer-controlled motorized lifts, conveyors and shuttles to transport cars from the arrival level to a parking space and vice versa, without human assistance.

Since 1989, Unitronics, a unique leading company with international presence, has focused on three principal fields of activity, which are implemented by three business divisions: Automation Products, Automated Logistics Systems and Automated Parking Solutions. Through its Automated Parking Solutions division, Unitronics provides design, production, integration, installation, support and maintenance services for automatic parking systems. These services include traffic and parking surveys, conceptual solutions and design, detailed engineering, construction, installation, implementation, operation and maintenance. GREEN solutions and LEED certification are major factors in Unitronics' Automated Parking Solutions designs.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• +westhollywood
• +unitronics
• +parking

[HappinessIzBriShaped]

what happens if you forgot something in your car? :|

[kenhakei]

I would love to be in the car during all that.

[lookbehindyouilied]

what happens if, god forbid, you were in a hurry to get your car?

[Luciferminusone]

@GroupawnDon This is the automatic car park 3000 where everything is automatic including my voice and nothing can go wrong.........go wrong...............go wrong.........................­.

[issamwebs]

Cost : 100$ :D

[RossRocks07]

he came in a blue car but left in a red car ahaha

[davidology]

the 1940s would like their music back when ur done with it.

[GroupawnDon]

Hmmm. And I'm sure that unlike elevators and escalators this system will rarely ever break down leaving people's cars stranded and inaccessible.

[shawnbflannigan]

13 million dollars is a TOTAL waste of public funds especially for a TOY behind city hall!!!!... why not build parking where it’s needed most like SBM between fairfax and crescent hts where there are 4 clubs and other businesses and zero parking??? ….i guess city staffer’s have issues walking 2 blocks to the kings road structure which was built for them, and essentially goes unused when staff cars aren’t there