Raleigh, NC (myPressManager.com) July 30, 2012
North Carolina based parking management firm, Park Select, headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, announces the grand opening of their new Raleigh, North Carolina location. The newly franchised Park Select will offer business and property owners in downtown Raleigh innovative alternatives in parking enforcement, coupled with cutting edge and affordable parking management technologies.Local business owners, Eva and Dan Brown, recognized the growing demand on available parking in Raleigh’s busy downtown districts and recently contracted for the Park Select franchise rights for all of Wake County. “Raleigh business owners are looking for a way to combat the abuses that increased parking demands are causing.” says Dan Brown, the new owner of Park Select Raleigh. “Park Select offers business and property owners an effective deterrent at no cost. In a challenging economy, we felt a cost free and valuable service would be a welcome change in our community.” Park Select’s unique business model was developed nearby in Wilmington, North Carolina; and, for over a decade has offered merchants and lot owners alike the free hourly monitoring and enforcement that has become their trademark. But while it may be free to the lot owners they represent, the cost of Park Select’s hourly enforcement is passed on to the parking violators they work to discourage. Park Select lot monitors identify violators and issue parking fines as an alternative to towing enforcement. “We have found that fines are much more effective than towing or booting,” says Kirk Iventosch, founder of Park Select Franchising Opportunities. “Our clients can’t afford the negative impact that towing might cause their business. We give them back their lots, without the hassles of monitoring them.”The newly established Park Select Raleigh will offer that same monitoring and enforcement, along with revenue generating management options such as daily and hourly pay parking and monthly tenant management. Utilizing new cloud-based credit card payment technologies and other payment management systems, Park Select will offer Raleigh lot owners percentage-based lot management fees for new and existing pay parking lots. “Our goal,” says Dan Brown,” is to provide Raleigh lot owners more space and higher profits. If we can do that, we’ll be successful.”Park Select Raleigh
PO Box 26795, Raleigh, NC 27539
919-303-7917
http://www.ParkSelect.com
Established in 2001 in Wilmington, North Carolina as a parking management firm, offering services to area business and parking lot owners; Park Select has now become the newest franchised business model in North Carolina. The first Park Select franchise was sold this month to business owners Dan and Eva Brown of Raleigh, North Carolina. Plans for a second Park Select Coastal franchise, which will include all North Carolina beaches, will soon be finalized and other locations as far west as California are currently in negotiation. As small business owners themselves, Park Select founders Kirk and Sandra Iventosch recognized the need for affordable parking management. “We were restaurant owners and our parking lot was constantly abused. We couldn’t afford the negative impact of towing,” explained Sandra, “but hiring an outside firm or paying our own employees to monitor the lot wasn’t cost effective. We realized that business owners like ourselves needed a third alternative.” The resulting company, Park Select offers hourly monitoring and parking enforcement to business and property owners regardless of the lot size and at no cost to the lot owner. Park Select’s fees are paid by issuing fines to any parking violators identified in the lots they manage. “It’s a win-win for everyone,” says Sandra, “The lot owner gets parking optimization for free, our fee is paid by the violator, legitimate local paid parking is utilized more frequently, and even the violator wins when they don’t get towed.” Park Select’s client base increased as they added other parking management services, including pay parking and tenant parking. The success of their unique business model in Wilmington made Park Select executives question what other markets throughout the US might benefit from their services. Forming Park Select Franchising Opportunities, they developed the tools and training programs to help business owners in other cities duplicate their success. In an industry dominated by fast food and automotive services, Park Select Franchising Opportunities is the first and only parking management franchise system. Their stated goal is to change the parking industry, one lot at a time. Through franchise sales, Park Select may do just that, one city at a time. 
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