Our Community Parking

Our Community Parking

Our Community Parking was established in 2012 by Daniel Rodriguez, who identified inefficiencies in fractured urban parking markets where single-asset owners lacked the operating scale and capital to maximize value. The firm focuses on acquiring underperforming parking facilities in high-density corridors and deploying standardized management and technology to improve yield. The investment strategy centers on direct acquisition and operation of parking assets — surface lots and multi-level garages — primarily in the New York metropolitan area, with selective exposure to other Northeast urban markets. Rather than competing for trophy downtown garages, the firm targets sites in residential and mixed-use neighborhoods near public transit, where land use is stable and competition is fragmented. Revenue derives from monthly permits, transient parkers, and lease agreements with adjacent commercial and residential developments. The firm maintains a lean organizational structure, combining capital deployment, property management, and maintenance operations under a single umbrella. This vertically integrated approach allows tighter control over operational margins compared to traditional parking REITs. There is no disclosed external AUM or dedicated fund vehicle; the firm appears to operate on a proprietary or tightly held capital base. What distinguishes Our Community Parking structurally is its operator-investor hybrid model — it does not simply acquire real estate and lease it to a third-party operator, as most property investors do. By retaining operations in-house, the firm captures the full spread between market-rate parking revenue and the cost of ownership and labor, a spread that conventional real estate investors typically cede to parking management companies.