NEWS
March 26, 1992
Evening valet parking service began this week in the Glendale Urban Garage at 115 N. Maryland Ave., where parking is provided for The Exchange, a two-block area of shops, restaurants and a multiscreen theater. The service will enhance the attractiveness of the redevelopment project at Brand Boulevard and Broadway, northeast of the galleria, city officials said. Valets are available nightly from 6 p.m. to closing at the south entrance to the city-owned multilevel garage. The service costs $3.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 25, 2012 | By Mark Kellam, Los Angeles Times
Apparently there is a limit to how much people are willing to pay to pamper their cars and save a few minutes, even in car-crazy L.A. An effort at Bob Hope Airport to provide super luxury valet parking for $14,600 a year has been a flop and will be discontinued. Despite the upsides - reserved, extra-wide, covered spaces and shortened wait times - the deluxe valet service has not drawn a single customer. "We've had no takers since the product was introduced," said Clint Joy, a vice president for Standard Parking, which took over operations at Bob Hope last month.
NEWS
May 2, 1988 | United Press International
City officials, hoping to lure shoppers away from suburban malls, today will start offering valet parking service downtown. Mayor Donald Canney said the 90-day experiment should lure more consumers to downtown by freeing shoppers from the hassles of finding parking spots at meters or in city garages. City employees in red vests and bow ties will set up a booth outside the largest downtown department store and will park shoppers' cars in city ramps for $2 above the normal parking fee.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 4, 1990 | JAMES QUINN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Burbank Airport officials on Monday approved a 90-day test of valet parking at the airport, saying they hope that it will increase patronage while reducing congestion in the drop-off area outside the terminals and in the crowded short-term parking lot. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority unanimously approved the plan, under which airport visitors can have their cars parked for a minimum of $6.
NEWS
October 11, 1987 | PHILIPP GOLLNER, Times Staff Writer
Valet parking is as commonplace in upscale Marina del Rey as boats, but boaters say it has no place in the Marina City Club parking lot, which they use when they board their vessels. The boat owners are protesting plans by the county Regional Planning Department to require valet parking for people who keep boats at the club's 340 boat slips. The plan is an attempt to compensate for parking spaces lost when a hotel is built at Tahiti Way and Via Marina.
NEWS
December 4, 1986 | KAREN ROEBUCK, Times Staff Writer
The City Council, responding to downtown merchants' complaints about a new restaurant, tentatively decided this week to forbid valet parking services from using city streets or other public parking areas. Dave Fansler opened the restaurant, Wiliker's, on Manhattan Beach Boulevard in early November with 46 parking spaces, enough to meet city requirements. Jim Dolen, Wiliker's general manager, said the valets have parked an average of 20 cars a day, most of them in the restaurant's own lots.