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Interim Full Time Parking Management Services
City of Providence, Rhode Island

This project involved Andy Miller providing eight months of full time, on-site interim parking management services in downtown Providence from June, 2005 through January, 2006. Andy’s mission focused on three primary tasks:

Task 1 - To provide leadership and direction for the City’s on-street parking program, to include expansion of the meter program and a review of appropriate new technologies for on-street revenue collection.

A plan was developed to deploy approximately 650 new paid parking spaces on-street in the downtown area, which is projected to increase parking revenues by a minimum of $650,000 annually.

Assisted the City in extensively researching new state-of-the-art, on-street pay-and-display technology and successfully deploying new equipment at key locations throughout the downtown area.

Task 2 - To assist the Providence Off-Street Public Parking Corporation (POPC) in the planning, financing and development of specific “bricks-and-mortar” parking expansion projects, to include three potential parking structures with a total of 3,000 + total parking spaces.

Assisted the POPC with preliminary feasibility analyses for three potential new parking/mixed-use development projects, to include the “Garrahy Courthouse”; “Grants Block”; and “LaSalle Square” project sites.

Assisted in the planning and development of a new Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District for the downtown area that will provide a permanent revenue stream for the “new” parking system.

Task 3 - To assess the current parking system from a management/organizational perspective and provide options and recommendations for a “new” organizational model for downtown Providence.

Andy Miller spent nearly eight months “on the ground” in Providence providing interim leadership, observing and documenting existing conditions, surveying comparable regional cities, advising key staff and communicating with downtown stakeholders.

Andy presented a number of reports and memorandums that identified issues & problem areas, he presented alternative organizational models to address the issues identified; and facilitated discussions with the City’s leadership team to finalize and adopt a new management / organizational model for the downtown parking system.

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