Case Study One: A Solutions Parking Program at Zurich North America

For many years, Zurich North America in Schaumburg, IL was experiencing a severe parking shortage with its more than 3,000 employees and tenants. A long term solution of building two additional parking decks on site to increase available parking was not quite an option since even more space would be lost during the construction.

In August, 2005, the problem was exacerbated even further after the devastating results of Hurricane Katrina. As Zurich was flooded with insurance claims, the company was forced to add hundreds of additional claims contractors and was faced with an even greater challenge of having to accommodate there vehicles.

With no where else for the vehicles to go, Zurich called Advantage Valet. In January of 2006, Zurich North America, contracted out with Advantage Valet Parking, Inc. to provide Solutions Parking at its Schaumburg headquarters. Advantage Valet designed a Solutions Parking Program at Zurich able to accommodate nearly 400 additional vehicles on site per day.

The solution not only provided the additional parking capacity, but an attractive and convenient service for guests, employees and tenants of the Zurich Towers as well. With the Advantage Valet Solutions Parking Program in place Zurich was also able to begin and complete construction of two additional parking decks on site.