Park Your…Elephant!?
In 1957, Enco Engineering and Richard C. Rich designed a multi-purpose complex for the Dayton Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This new structure was built to replace an obsolete 400-car attendant parking garage, warehouses, and retail stores. Built to provide for a 700-car, self-service parking deck, this new structure included retail […]
Fall Industry News!
Here’s what’s currently happening in the parking industry! Passport, the global leader in mobility solutions has announced a $5M investment to expand their Platform – This platform will help connect multiple modes of transportation and payments, and provide a way for cities to understand, manage, and collaborate with an increasingly […]
What we’ve been up to!
The Rich & Associates Planning Team has been busy this summer! We added an additional four stops to our roadmap with studies in Flagstaff, AZ., Boyne City, MI., Adrian, MI., and Ypsilanti, MI. In Flagstaff, AZ., we spent a full week in July conducting a parking study update consisting of 48 […]
If you think the Parking Industry isn’t exciting…think again!
“A Northwest Airlines jetliner returned safely to Miami after it was hijacked from Milwaukee to Havana, Cuba, with 60 passengers aboard, by a man armed with a hatchet and claiming to have a bomb hidden in his briefcase“. This is the opening line to an article published in the 1971 […]
Groundbreaking at Beaumont!
Beaumont Health, a nonprofit hospital with headquarters in Royal Oak, Michigan, is consolidating its shared services employees from 16 different locations to the First Center building in Southfield, Michigan. In 2018 and 2019 some 3,000 Beaumont employees will be relocating to the renovated office building. In order to accommodate the […]
President of Rich & Associates Goes to Extraordinary Lengths to Prove Integrity of Firm’s Parking Garage Design…
This is the story of the extraordinary lengths Mr. Rich went to prove the integrity of his design of a garage in Dayton Ohio in the late 1950s, as told by Richard C. Rich. “This was a two-module garage with a sloped floor and a parapet wall in between that […]
Closing out our 55-year celebration, an interview with Mr. Rich!
For almost three quarters of a century, Richard C. Rich has provided his knowledge and expertise in the planning and design of parking to thousands of clients throughout the United States, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Central and South America. “Dick” (is how he likes to be called), is […]
The Future of Driving!
By now we’ve all heard of self-driving (autonomous) vehicles and how they are changing the future of driving. But how will this affect the parking garages and studies that we do here at Rich & Associates? We looked at the pro’s and con’s of autonomous vehicles and how we think […]
National Gardening Week!
National Gardening week is recognized during the first full week of June (3rd-9th)! When we think of summer, we think of sunshine, nice weather, and all of the beautiful flowers and plants that are finally in bloom! Nothing enhances being outside in the summer quite like the pops of color […]