If you own a car in America, you need a place to put it, overnight and intermittently. If you’re lucky while at home, that’s at a curb, in a driveaway, or in a spot in a garage or lot that’s yours all the time. For every other combination in commercial or business parts of cities, particularly downtowns, you’ll almost always need to pay for it.
As Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and others have tried to fix the problem of getting a car for hire on demand and paying with a tap, so, too, are dozens of companies working on a complementary problem: parking. Each has a particular niche.
Luxe, for instance, offers parking in several city centers, and acts as an on-demand valet, picking up your car at a point you…
