The San Diego Division of Five Star Parking was formed in 1992 with L&R Group and Chacon Parking as general partners. On day one, all we had was a dream of becoming the absolute, finest parking company in the region. What began with one employee and one parking lot at Broadway and Kettner has now become the largest parking lot operator in downtown San Diego and the second largest operator overall. Recognized as the fastest growing parking company in the region, we are the only local operator who owns, develops and operates public parking structures in San Diego.
Today, our portfolio of office buildings includes many of the foremost office garages in San Diego from the iconic Emerald Plaza to the brand new Advanced Equities Plaza near the waterfront. Recently, the very respected Irvine Company entrusted Five Star Parking to manage the parking facilities at One America Plaza , 501 West Broadway and Westwood Gateway I & II. Currently we manage over 5,200 garage spaces and over 6,800 parking lot spaces for a total of 12,000 stalls in the region. In addition, we developed and eventually sold the 608 stall public parking facility, Columbia Garage, in addition to owning the 600 stall Parking Palace.
Our business model is simple and concise. Parking facility leasing and management operations, parking asset acquisition and development and hotel valet operations services. We believe that improvements in operating performance supported by precise operational procedures, applied technology, transparent accounting practices and clear, candid financial and operational reporting will generate previously untapped value opportunities for the owners of the parking facilities we operate and manage. We provide quick and efficient responses to our client's needs through our investments in technology and education which are integral components of our firm's culture.
Our employees and executives are exclusively dedicated to parking related matters. We have the unique ability to instantly draw on our collective intellectual capital to provide practical and efficient solutions to an increasingly complicated parking industry. Judgment doesn't involve a simple decision, but a process that begins with acquiring the right information and continues through execution. Judgment is not good judgment until it's backed up with execution.
We are unique in the San Diego market in that we are owners and developers of parking facilities as well as managers. We take an ownership approach to operations designed to maximize revenues, lower overhead and deliver consistent, high quality customer service. We apply the same management skills, revenue controls and judgments to our client's properties that we do to our own. This gives our clients parking services that are developed and tested with our own money and assets
Our senior management group has a combined (115) years of San Diego experience and extensive local parking operation, management and site development expertise. We make decisions expeditiously and locally. Our team is distinguished by its accomplishments and characterized by its vision. We invest in San Diego both individually and as a company not just through our business operations by via our investments as well. Our investments and our businesses generate tens of thousands of dollars annually in local tax and fee revenues to the local economy and hundreds of thousands of dollars in the community through wages, salaries and vendor payments.
The core of our company culture comes from the fact that we have been a motivated business with a behavioral compass of enduring values for over fifteen years. Our down to earth, real approach to business no matter how difficult or complicated and our freedom to be creative and make decisions quickly distinguishes us from those with whom we compete against each day.
- Essex Portfolio (1st & Ash Street)
- Lamden Lot (2nd & Ash Street)
- Eklund Lot (5th & Cedar Street)
- Fifth Avenue Pro (4th & Fir)
- County Cedar (Kettner & Cedar Street)
- Hall/Fish (8th & Broadway)
- Hall/Dick (10th & E Street)
- Cost Plus (4th & K Street)
- County Union (Union Street & C Street)
- 10th & A Street
- Samimi (5th & J Street)
- Carrier Johnson (3rd & A Street)
- Lane Field (Broaway & Pacific Coast Highway)
- Point of View Ð Broadway (11th & Broadway)
- Point of View Ð E Street (11th & E Street)
- Bosa (8th & B Street)
- Liberty Station (Harbor & Lee Court)
- GSA State (State Street & E Street)
- SDSU (Hardy & College Street)
- Bosa South (Broadway & Pacific Coast Highway)
- Irvine North (Broadway & Pacific Coast Highway)
- McMillin (14th & K Street)
- Mercy Medical (5th & Lewis Street)
- CCDC Broadway (9th & Broadway)
- Bosa Market (10th & Market Street)
- Bosa Kettner (Kettner & Ash Street)
- Columbia Downtown (India & A Street)
- McMillin (13th & J Street)
- Bosa Island (1st & Island Street)
- Liberty Station
- Pacific Properties (13th & Market Street)
- Jasper Smith (14th & Imperial Street)
- Coseo (14th & Imperial Street)
- Sutherland Front (Front & Beech Street)
- Sutherland Cedar (2nd & Cedar Street)
- Congress (Congress & Harney Street)
- 8th & C Street
- India & A Street
- 4th & Beech Street
- 6th & A Street
- Bristol Hotel
- Columbia Garage
- Parking Palace
- Union Bank
- Allegro Towers
- Adv Equities Plaza
- Emerald Plaza
- North Park Garage
- One America Plaza
- 501 West Broadway
Address: 655 West Broadway Suite 1060 San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619.235.4500
General Partner: Paul Chacon
Email: pchacon@fivestarparking.com
Senior Business Development Manager: Hans Merklein
Email: hmerklein@fivestarparking.com
Senior Operations Manager: Steven Simmons
Email: ssimmons@fivestarparking.com
Senior Accounting Manager: John Thomas
Email: jthomas@fivestarparking.com
