Or reduce the cost of building parking garages. Parking is a necessary evil to businesses and developers. Someone seeking to develop land into a strip mall or

Or reduce the cost of building parking garages. Parking is a necessary evil to businesses and developers. Someone seeking to develop land into a strip mall or big box store or rental apartments doesn't want to buy and pay tax on ten acres of land, pay to have it street swept every fall and spring, plowed every winter, seal-coated every 5yr, repainted every 10 and re-paved every 20-30. Parking garages are pre-engineered kit-buildings (like steel warehouses). The fact that you have to grease all the usual state palms, go through the stupid approval processes, etc, etc as if you're developing a standalone dedicated facility to put them up whereas a parking lot is basically a footnote on whatever you're already trying to develop is why you rarely see them.