City Center Parking

[News] Proposed $10 million garage contract unites longtime parking competitors.

Portland’s two largest parking companies will descend on City Council next week in a rare moment of accord.

Star Park and City Center Parking, which have feuded for decades, will be allies at the June 30 hearing, each protesting that it got shut out of the city’s $10 million annual contract to manage six SmartPark garages.

The city Bureau of Transportation announced April 28 t

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[News] Normally rivals, two powerful local parking firms protest a new city garage contract.

Portland’s two largest parking companies are fuming about the city’s recent decision to award a $30 million garage management contract to a Nashville firm.

Finding themselves united is an odd twist for City Center Parking and Star Park, which, in addition to their extensive parking operations, are large downtown property owners.

The companies, whose deep ties to elected offici

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Think the Navy would pass up a good recruitment opportunity while the sailors are in town? Think again, cadet. The Navy and Army have set up a parking lot full of attractions and advertising right across the street from the Rose Festival grounds.

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I am having a huge problem with this company and I wonder if anyone here has had the same problem and fought them successfully.

Last week, I parked on top of R.E.I. at 15th and Johnson like I do every Tue/Thurs for school. I used my credit card to pay the $5.25 for all day parking. No receipt. I thought maybe my card didn't go through. I then paid again, and realized the machine definitely was not printing tickets. Now having paid a total of $10.50 for parking, I wrote a quick note about the machine not working and stuck it on my dashboard (next to about ten other old receipts for the same lot).

I came back to my car later that night and saw a ticket for $26. Upsetting, but no big deal. Surely they will waive it when I show them my bank statement with the double charge. Wrong. I contacted City Center Parking about the problem and a week later, my account was refunded the extra $5.25. They waived the $2.50 'parking fee' portion of the penalty, but said the ticket still stands at $24 through Pacific Audit Solutions.

Just called Pacific Audit Solutions and from the woman's attitude, I can tell they make a LOT of money off their little scam. She told me "it's not going away. It doesn't matter who you talk to. You didn't follow the warning signs. You need to pay up". I tried to be as nice and calm as possible, to no avail. By the end of the phone call I was so furious I was shaking.

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"This is the worst place to park your car in PORTLAND, unless of course..." by very angry customers

Here's that list we asked about this morning -- those civic-minded business people who gave the money at the last minute to save the Washington Park free summer concerts this year: Washington Park Summer Festival Donors Sondland Durant Foundation Hotel deLuxe Hotel Lucia Bank of America Craig Boretz Starlett & Stephen Brown, NW Securities Advisors LLC City Center Parking/Greg Goodman Dewey Dental FutureWorks Consulting Kaiser Permanente Key Bank Laborers' Local 483 The Irving Levin and Stephanie Fowler Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation The Mark Spencer Hotel Jay Martin Ms. Willi Martinsen Marylhurst University Melvin Mark Companies Miller Nash LLP Susan Newman & Phil Goldsmith NW Natural OSU Foundation Pacific Power PGE Wendy Popkin, Popkin Solutions Portland Trail Blazers Qwest Reser's Fine Foods Safeway Luisa Simone & Robert Obrinsky Star Park/Schlesinger Companies Stoel Rives TransCanada US Bank Wells Fargo Way to go, people.

Greg Goodman, whose City Center Parking company owns several undeveloped surface parking lots in the downtown area, has made a request to the Historic Landmarks Commission for permission to demolish a building he owns listed on the National Register of...