Parking Matrix System

Take transit to work, and keep your car for those weekend adventures.

Living green can mean a lot of things, but sometimes it’s hard to part with the occasional use of your own car. The 20 on Hawthorne features the first puzzle lift parking system installed in Oregon. And it’s also fast — any car in the system can be retrieved in less than 60 seconds.

This innovative and earth-friendly parking system stores cars on “trays” that move up and down. There are many varieties of this system in use in larger U.S. cities, as well as overseas; so this is not new technology, just something that’s new to Portland. The system installed at The 20 on Hawthorne was made by Harding Steel and is called a triple stacker — with one car below grade, one at grade and one above grade. So in the same footprint of 10 typical parking spaces, there are 29 parking spaces. What a great way to minimize our footprint!

Puzzle Parking

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