RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Earlier this week, we told you about the new “City Gateway” development coming to downtown Raleigh. It’ll have a hotel, housing, retail, and a parking garage. However, that garage won’t be like any other in North Carolina. Many people take an elevator every day and soon, your car could too. A new automated parking garage is coming to downtown Raleigh. You can order your car on any IOS or Android phone and it can park 98% of all passenger vehicles sold in the US. “It will take it down, put it on to a shuttle, run it back through the building,” Dasher Lawless AUTOParkit President and CEO Christopher Alan said. According to AUTOParkit’s parent company Dasher Lawless, the garage will have multiple “load bays” where you can get your vehicle. “When you want it back, you touch your iPhone and the car comes back to you in approximately 180 seconds,” Alan said. If a customer doesn’t grab their vehicle within three minutes, it’s reparked. “Our goal is to park our first car by Dec. 31,” Alan said. The automated parking garage will be a part of the City Gateway development, which will also include housing, a hotel, and retail. While the ‘AUTOParkit’ garage will be completed first, it’s not the first of its kind. Alan told CBS 17 Investigates their first garage was built in 2010. “It was the prototype, the pilot project for automated parking for the city of Los Angeles,” he said. “We helped write codes for the city of L.A. that got adopted across the United States for the most part.” Now, there are more than two-dozen across the country, with the nearest one in Detroit. Alan told CBS 17 the garage will use less concrete than a typical garage and instead use
<b>Automated</b> parking garage hopes to park first <b>car</b> in downtown Raleigh by New Year's Eve
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