{"id":25282,"date":"2017-02-06T17:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=25282"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:28:53","slug":"tired-getting-towed-created-smarter-way-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/tired-getting-towed-created-smarter-way-park","title":{"rendered":"I was tired of getting towed, so I created a smarter way to park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I arrived at Chicago’s WeWork Fulton Market<\/a> this morning at 3:30 AM. I swiped my digital key card to get into the building, walked up the stairs to my two-person office on the third floor, and worked peacefully until the rest of my nine-person team arrived at 8:30 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I moved to Chicago from Mumbai, India in 1997 and fell in love with the city from day one. I found everything I needed in Chicago\u2014my wife, an apartment in River North, and a multitude of restaurants in which I\u2019m now considered a regular. Well, I found almost<\/em> everything\u2014except for parking spots I could actually park in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all know that feeling of circling a neighborhood looking for parking. It\u2019s painful. So instead of finding public parking spots, I would try to save time and gas by parking in private parking spots. You can only imagine how many times I received a parking ticket or got my car towed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was sick and tired of circling around looking for parking. (And I was even more sick and tired of all the parking tickets and getting towed.) There were all these private parking spots that weren\u2019t being used, but nobody could park in them\u2014for no particular reason. There had to be a better, smarter way to park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why I created ParqEx<\/a>, an on-demand parking technology company that connects people who own private parking spots to people looking for parking. Think of ParqEx as the Airbnb of parking, in that businesses, nonprofits, condo buildings, and individuals with a private parking space can rent out their spots whenever they\u2019re available. We allow for private parking owners to make some supplemental revenue off an underutilized asset, while helping the community by opening up more parking options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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