On a cold night in Chicago, a young man was driving around his neighborhood searching in vain for a parking spot for his 1991 Toyota Previa. Everywhere he looked, empty parking lots taunted him with their “No Parking” signs – at the bank, next to the grocery store, across from the post office. Finally, after parking many blocks away and trudging home through the snow, he knew he had to find a way to make parking better.
The man was Spark Parking CEO and Founder, Cooper Marcus. That night marked the beginning of the end for parking headaches in cities across the country.
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