Standard tenant permit
PMS-synced permit on the plate; clears automatically at move-out. No leasing-office paperwork. Tested with multifamily property managers in Denver, CO on the typical tier-1 demand profile.
PMS-synced
Apartment parking · Denver, CO
Park Graph is the apartment parking management software multifamily property managers in Denver, CO use to manage their lots — from LoDo and RiNo to the metro edge — without on-site kiosks, gate hardware, or month-long procurement cycles. QR-first payments, dynamic pricing tuned to Denver's demand, and AI-agent visibility on ChatGPT and Gemini ship in the same plan.
Multifamily property managers, build-to-rent operators, and short-term-rental hosts share a parking backend headache: tenant permits, guest invites, package-and-delivery vehicles, and short-stay STR guests all need to coexist on a finite lot. Park Graph runs all four on one ledger with PMS integration so the property manager doesn't need a separate parking vendor or a separate spreadsheet.
In Denver, the multifamily property managers we work with span LoDo, RiNo, and Capitol Hill and the demand patterns that follow Broncos games, Nuggets games, and Rockies games. Denver's metro population of 715,522 drives the kind of weekday-baseline-plus-event-surge profile that Park Graph was built to optimise. The platform treats every apartment lot as a configurable inventory unit with its own rate sheet, sub-lots, capacity, and pre-buy window — so a single operator account can run a flagship apartment lot downtown alongside a smaller satellite without juggling two vendors.
The numbers below frame the denver market for multifamily property managers. We surface them on every apartment lot configuration screen so on-duty managers can benchmark their lot against the metro baseline at a glance.
Tenant permits live on the plate and sync from the PMS at lease signing; permits clear automatically at move-out. Tenants invite guests through a self-service portal that issues a short-term permit code. Delivery vehicles pay through the QR sign at the visitor rate. Short-term-rental units integrate via the STR host's PMS so an Airbnb or Vrbo guest gets a permit for the duration of their booking.
In Denver specifically, the day-of operations layer leans on three pieces of city context: peak-event windows tied to Broncos games and Nuggets games, a typical hourly rate of $12 that climbs 80% during major events, and the airport spillover from Denver International. The Park Graph dashboard surfaces all three as live dials so the on-duty manager at a Denver apartment lot can adjust pricing or open overflow capacity from a phone in seconds.
PMS-synced permit on the plate; clears automatically at move-out. No leasing-office paperwork. Tested with multifamily property managers in Denver, CO on the typical tier-1 demand profile.
PMS-synced
Tenant issues a short-term permit code from a portal; the guest scans and is parked free for the invited window.
Self-service guest
QR-paid visitor rate captures revenue from delivery and contractor traffic that traditionally parked free.
Visitor monetisation
STR-host PMS integration issues a permit for the guest's booking window; expires automatically at checkout.
STR-friendly
Premium reserved spaces tier separately at a higher monthly rate; the tenant's plate is tied to a specific space ID.
Reserved tier
Park Graph takes parking payments for EV spaces. It does not control or meter chargers.
EV spaces
On a representative Denver apartment lot of 50 spaces running at 65% average occupancy and the metro's hourly rate of $12, base monthly revenue lands around $140,400. Park Graph's dynamic pricing engine — which leans on Denver's event calendar (Broncos games and Nuggets games) and historical demand curves — typically lifts that to ~$175,500/month, or roughly $421,200 of additional annual revenue from the same physical inventory.
The lift compounds because three things move at once: drive-offs go to near-zero (QR settles before the driver leaves), peak-event windows price correctly without manual operator intervention, and AI-agent bookings add an organic channel that historically did not exist for apartment communities. Most Denver operators see payback inside a single quarter — and the absence of any per-stall licensing fee means the upside is almost entirely operator margin.
Representative monthly economics
Illustrative projection for Denver, CO apartment lot operators. Actual results depend on lot size, occupancy, and pricing strategy.
Most Denver lot owners hear the same pitch sooner or later: sign the lot over to a parking management company such as LAZ Parking or Metropolis, or to a revenue-share operator like AirGarage, and collect a payout. That suits an owner who wants a hands-off landlord deal. The trade is that the operator then runs your apartment lot, usually sets the rates, and takes its cut every month for as long as the agreement runs. Park Graph is the other path: software you run yourself, so multifamily property managers in Denver keep the lot, the price, and the upside.
On the representative Denver lot above (about $175,500 a month with dynamic pricing), Pro costs $499/mo plus 5% per transaction — roughly $9,274 a month — so you keep about 94% of what drivers pay, before standard Stripe card processing. Every 10 points of revenue share handed to an operator on the same lot is about $210,600 a year. None of the three operators above publishes a standard rate, so we don't quote one: ask for the number in writing and run it against this math.
| Capability | Park Graph | Management company (LAZ, Metropolis) | Revenue-share operator (AirGarage) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs the lot | You do, from your phone — Park Graph is the software | The management company, under a management agreement or lease | AirGarage runs it end to end on your behalf |
| Who sets the rates | You — an hourly or daily rate with an optional daily cap, changed any time from your dashboard | Typically the operator, within the contract terms | AirGarage manages pricing for you |
| How they get paid | A published per-transaction fee: 10% on the free Starter plan, down to 3.3% | A management fee, or the revenue above a fixed lease payment | A share of your lot's revenue (rate not published) |
| Contract | None on Starter; Pro and Enterprise bill monthly or annually | Multi-year agreements are common | Per the AirGarage operator agreement |
| Hardware | A printed QR sign | Often gates, pay stations, staff, or entry cameras | None — AirGarage installs its own signage |
| Where the money goes | Paid out to your bank through Stripe Connect. Your first payout is released 7 days after your first payment, once your ID check is done. After that, payouts arrive 2 business days after each payment. | Collected by the operator, remitted on its reporting schedule | Collected by AirGarage, your share paid out to you |
| Enforcement | Your call — your staff or a local tow partner, with plate lookup built in | Usually staffed by the operator | AirGarage coordinates enforcement |
| AI assistants + public API | Listed lots are findable through the public REST API and MCP server on every plan; bookings through an assistant on Pro and Enterprise | Varies by operator | An API for spots and rentals, with tokens issued on request; no MCP server found as of October 2026 |
Property managers reclaim the leasing-office time that previously went to parking permits. Tenant satisfaction rises because guest invites are self-service. Visitor monetisation captures revenue from delivery and contractor traffic that previously parked free. STR-host integration solves the permanent friction between long-term tenants and short-stay guests.
On the AI-agent side, Park Graph publishes Denver inventory and rates to ChatGPT (GPT-5), Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude (via MCP), Grok, and Perplexity Sonar Pro. When a traveller types "parking near LoDo Denver" into ChatGPT, the assistant can return your live availability and book on the user's behalf. For multifamily property managers in Denver, that's an organic discovery channel that does not exist on legacy kiosk-based platforms — and it compounds quickly because AI-agent traffic is the fastest-growing referral source for parking inventory in 2026.
Park Graph runs every parking surface in Denver on the same backend. If you operate across multiple verticals — for instance an airport authority that also runs the downtown convention centre's lot, or a hospital system with an attached medical office building — the same operator account covers all of them.
Park Graph publishes city-specific apartment parking pages for the top metros below. Pricing, event surge curves, and on-site context vary by metro; the underlying platform is the same.
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