Deluxe parking: A condo building in Philadelphia offers its owners a completely automated parking service

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Building Design + Construction explores a luxury condo’s automated parking system installed by Westfalia Technologies.

500 Walnut is a 26-story luxury condo building with 35 residences whose selling prices average $5 million, the highest in Philadelphia to date, according to the building’s developer Scannapieco Development Corporation (SDC).

The tower—designed by Cecil Baker + Partners and built by Intech Construction—includes all of the high-end amenities one might expect, such as a heated pool, fitness center, dog grooming, massage room and sauna, and “outdoor retreat.” And then there’s something entirely different: an automated palletless parking system with 86 parking slots, far more than this building could have accommodated had it gone instead with a more conventional alternative.

 

“This amenity adds a level of convenience that no other building can,” says Tom Scannapieco, SDC’s owner.

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