Affordable Housing Parking System in San Jose, CAWöhr Combilift 552 puzzle lift, 50 spaces, at Alta in San Jose's Alum Rock neighborhood
Set on a 1.3-acre site just east of Interstate 680 in San José’s Alum Rock neighborhood, this two-building affordable development rises six stories and replaces a long-vacant commercial property with 164 homes above ground-floor retail — 92 studios, 58 one-bedrooms, and 14 two-bedrooms serving households earning between 30% and 70% of area median income. Both buildings share a connected podium, where the Wöhr Combilift 552 carries the parking load: a semi-automatic system that stacks vehicles on two levels and arranges them in rows front to back. Platforms shift laterally at the entry level to open a vacant grid, the requested platform moves into place, and that open grid is positioned so a driver can pass through the front row to reach a space behind it. The system delivers 50 parking spaces within a podium footprint that conventional stalls and drive aisles would have quickly exhausted.
For anyone considering a semi or fully automated parking solution, I would strongly recommend Harding Autopark Systems.
They care about us as a customer and meeting all of our installation and service needs. I highly recommended Harding Autopark Systems.
On our projects, Harding has brought a deep understanding of customer needs, design parameters, and constructibility.
I found Harding Autopark Systems very accommodating and instrumental in providing a solution to our parking needs, design, budgeting, and value engineering.
Their proactive approach ensured we were well coordinated between MEP systems and their suspended parking solution so that install was flawless. I look forward to working with Harding Autopark Systems again.
Beyond the track record of being able to deliver unique parking solutions in our market, the real value for GBD Architects was the quick response time we experienced during a very iterative design process.
We chose Harding Autopark Systems initially because of their willingness to educate us on mechanical parking systems and to work with our design team. We are happy with how the process went and the product that we received.
