It is all about the experience. As parking designers, we strive to make the parking experience positive and a seamless process in the parker’s journey to their destination. To create this positive experience, we use state of the art parking technologies, enhanced lighting, circulation that is intuitive along with clear […]
Rich & Associates, the world’s oldest firm dedicated solely to parking design, planning, and management, announced today that it led the multi-discipline team that designed Ford Motor Company’s new Bagley Parking Hub. Rich & Associates designed the structure and is providing ongoing parking engineering consultation through the construction process. With […]
In December 2019, Rich & Associates, in association with The Christman Company, was awarded a contract to provide design, engineering and construction related services for two new parking garages for the campus of Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. The original project included the 5 level 825 space Lot 23 […]
The parking industry began discussing sustainable parking nearly two decades ago. At first the entire concept seemed counterintuitive. How could builders design structures to maximize performance while minimizing waste and actually improve the environment? The idea now no longer seems so foreign and through creative design we can create garages that minimize […]
Ford Motor Company recently announced site plans for a Mobility Innovation District around the redevelopment of the historic Michigan Central Station in Corktown, Detroit’s oldest neighborhood. Since parking and mobility go hand in hand, a parking mobility hub is a vital part of the plans. Ford’s leadership challenged our team […]
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Rich & Associates, the world’s oldest firm dedicated solely to parking, design, planning and management, was Architect of Record for Bedrock’s recently opened Assembly Garage – a 450 space parking structure with infrastructure in place for 8,500 sq. ft. of future ground level retail space. The parking […]
Rich & Associates’ affiliate, MEDPark Management, Inc., has been managing and operating a 1,600 space parking garage at the Jesse Brown VAMC in Chicago since 2003. The 2020 pandemic has changed how our management team operates and has informed our designers on how we look at designing parking. In order […]
In 2019 we broke news of an expansion of the MSU Grand Rapids Research Center, a six-story, 162,800-square-foot facility that opened its doors in Grand Rapids, Michigan in September of 2017. In 2019 a long-term ground lease was signed to allow for the continued development of the Grand Rapids Research […]
In February of 2019, we published an article about a new development coming to Royal Oak, Michigan called “The Griffin”. The Griffin, a 250,000 square foot luxurious apartment community, is currently being built to include 245 apartments and ground floor retail, all of which is wrapped around a 450 space, six-level parking […]
In June of 2019 we reported on the groundbreaking of a new parking structure coming to Detroit’s Corktown area. The new 450-space, mixed-use, parking structure was built to accommodate the newly renovated Corktown Lofts building also known as ‘The Assembly’. The Assembly (a Bedrock Property) is a mixed-use space consisting of residential, […]