Free Press building to have underground robo-garage

[Satiricalivory]

Robo-garage: Valet-style service with no valets is coming to downtown Detroit

"Why do you still park like it's 1999?" a builder of automated garages asks in a commercial you can see below.

The Ohio company, AUTOParkIt, will install what sounds like robo-parking in the basement of a landmark that was the Free Press' home on West Lafayette Boulevard from 1925-98. The partnership with Bedrock Detroit is the firm's first Midwestern deal.

It will let office and residential tenants pull onto loading bays, leave their vehicles to be lifted, rotated and stored automatically in a rack structure. To leave, drivers tap a key fob or use a mobile app and the vehicle is moved automatically to the entry area. Tenants can speed delivery time by requesting it on the way down.

The underground garage will be in a cavernous pit where newspaper presses rolled decades ago.
Bedrock, Dan Gilbert's development division, is converting the six-story Albert Kahn-deisgned building with a 14-story tower into stores, offices and residential units -- a nearly $70-million project expected to be finished next year.

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/arti...wntown_detroit

[royce]

Cool!