Andrew Sachs is co-founder and editor of Parkonomics and President of Gateway Parking Services, a parking consultancy and systems integrator. He is known for PARCS architecture: designing parking access and revenue control around a facility's operational requirements and software capabilities rather than a hardware vendor's catalog.
For years Andrew was owner-operator of Harbor Park Garage, a facility of roughly 1,300 spaces at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, which gave him a ground-level view of how rate, equipment and staffing decisions show up in the numbers. He serves on the NPA Parking Consultants Council and the IPMI Technology Committee, edits the 6th Edition of NPA's Dimensions of Parking, and is a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners. He holds the PTMP credential and is a Parksmart Advisor.
Before parking, Andrew spent two decades producing large-scale live events and theatrical productions, and co-founded Directors Lab West. He holds an MFA in Theatre from Syracuse University and a BA in English Literature and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and studied at the University of Oxford. He speaks regularly at IPMI, PIE, NPA, CMPA, MAPTA and PIPTA, and writes at Parkonomics on PARCS, EV charging, curb policy and the economics of the garage.
