No need to tip. A robot will park your car for you at this Fort Worth office building.
There will be no need to tip the valet driver at a new Fort Worth office building — it’s a robot.
The Triune Centre, slated for the area of Interstate 30, Chisholm Trail Parkway and Montgomery Street, will have a fully automated valet parking system. The location is just south of Fort Worth’s Cultural District and Dickies Arena. Real estate investment firm Cornerstone Projects Group, engineering firm Trident Structures and Stream Realty Partners announced the luxury office building this week.
The developers boast that Triune Centre is the first office building to have a parking system of this kind.
With automated parking, drivers park their cars on a pallet, a robotic system then moves the car throughout the storage space to an empty spot. Using a kiosk or app, the driver can order the car delivered by them with curbside-style delivery.
Such systems may be rare in office buildings, but the concept is gaining traction as a way to park more cares in less space. In Seattle, parking company ParkPlus is building a more than 260-space automated system into a luxury housing tower, and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance clinic has plans for an underground system, according to Seattle Business magazine. A luxury tower in Los Angeles is also expected to have robotic parking, according to the L.A. Times.
“We are excited to be able to debut this state-of-the-art valet parking system in the city of Fort Worth,” Ben Trantham, president of Trident Structures, said in a statement. “Triune Centre will offer future tenants unrivaled convenience and flexibility.”
Besides the nifty parking garage, Triune Centre features 30,000 square feet of top class office space across six floors. Offices can be divided into 5,000-square-foot options or tenants can lease an entire floor. Renderings of the building show large, expansive windows for abundant natural light.
Dallas-based Stream Realty’s Cullen Donohue, Seth Korschak and Vic Meyer are leasing the building to tenants are leasing the building, according to the statement.
The Star-Telegram reached out to a spokesman for more information about the offices opening and whether the coronavirus outbreak will delay plans but did not receive and immediate response.
This story was originally published April 1, 2020 at 12:00 PM.
