Large Event Access Experience
Parking Operator RFP, Management & Staff Training
Guest-Centered Operations Planning & Staff Training
Oracle Park & Mission Rock, San Francisco, CA
Led procurement process for new parking operator and built guest-experience-oriented performance incentives in new contract
The Key Task
Replace an under-performing parking operator and ensure that the new operator would improve guest experience while managing the increasing complexity inherent in serving two major event venues in addition to new residential and office tenants
Business Goals
Increase the professionalism and performance of venue parking operator
Ensure capacity and competence to manage major transition in the parking operation with the opening of a mixed-use development
Maximize revenue opportunities while reducing reputational risk
Guest Wishes
Friendly customer service and minimal access and egress delay in venue parking facilities
Easy access for tenants of the new mixed-use neighborhood, event during event parking operations
Strategy
Solicit bids from leading parking operators
Identify key operations and guest experience outcomes, and tie operator compensation to those outcomes
Vet key staff on operator side to ensure creativity, flexibility, managerial skills, and competence in managing a quickly changing operation
Results
Embedded incentives and data-collection routines in contract that led to reduced entry & exit delays and improved customer service
Successfully added tenant parking and valet operations while optimizing an event parking supply that varied day-to-day
Large Event Access Experience