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Parking lot

In the United Kingdom, it has been possible to pre-book parking with specialist companies, such as BCP, since 1978.


Metrovacesa

The interests of the three constituent companies were largely confined to residential and office property, but the newly merged entity expanded across Spain and moved into other assets such as shopping centres and car parks.

Parking

The song Big Yellow Taxi, originally written and performed by Joni Mitchell, includes the line, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

Russ Swift

Swift's driving skills were memorably put to the test in 1987, when he performed stunts in a crowded parking lot in an Austin Montego for a television advertisement.

The Good, the Sad and the Drugly

When she discovers online reports about soap for drinks instead of water, a world war over a tiny drop of oil, a parking lot yet to be filled forever and the last polar bear committing suicide by hanging himself, she is filled with anxiety and depression and terrifies her classmates with her dark visions of the oceans rising from global warming, turning humanity and the lowlands into a desert and darkness falling upon Nineveh.


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2003–04 ABA Goodyear League

On Friday night, April 16th around 11pm following the semifinal games, an ethnically motivated incident occurred when Crvena zvezda's director Igor Žeželj and B92 journalist Danijel Bukumirović got assaulted at the parking lot of Panorama Hotel by an organized group of fifteen Croatian hooligans with chains, rocks and metal poles.

41 Cooper Square

It originally called for a nine-story academic building to replace the Hewitt Building, a fifteen-story office complex to replace the engineering building, the removal of Taras Shevchenko Place (a tiny street honoring a Ukrainian folk hero between St. George’s Ukrainian Church and the site), and the development of a parking lot on 26 Astor Place and an empty lot on Stuyvesant Street into a hotel or for another commercial tenant.

Aaron Fike

He was arrested in the parking lot of Kings Island in July 2007, and subsequently suspended by NASCAR and released from his contract.

Agder Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden

There is an old park in the free English landscape style, historic rose garden, rose garden and modern roses, South Norwegian rose garden, millenniumgarden, conifers collection (arboretum), shrubs and trees at the museum's parking lot (lignoses), perennials, rock garden, pond with water plants, heather garden and a collection of Rhododendron.

Allen Dorfman

Three days before his sentencing, scheduled for January 23, 1983, he was murdered in the Purple Hotel parking lot in Lincolnwood, Illinois.

Arthur T. Gregorian

In 1953, as President of Morgan Memorial and President of Goodwill Industries, he called his friend and fellow Armenian, Stephen P. Mugar, and asked if he could place a new collection receptacle he had designed in the parking lot of the Star Market in Wellesley Hills.

Automated guideway transit

The Getty Center in Los Angeles uses a unique vertically oriented AGT to bring visitors from a parking lot off Interstate 405 to the Center at the top of a hill in Brentwood; this system places the motor outside the vehicle at the top of the guideway to reduce the weight lifted up the hill and thus improve efficiency.

Bad As I Wanna Be

The book opens with Rodman recounting an incident during the 1992-93 basketball season where he nearly took his own life in the parking lot of The Palace of Auburn Hills, while Rodman was still a member of the Detroit Pistons.

Bluebird Cafe

He died from a drug overdose in the parking lot of the LA club The Viper Room a few weeks after the film wrapped.

Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits

The band's unusual name came from a conversation between Abbott and Redford in the parking lot of the Pinole Burger King minutes before their first show.

Bratislava I

Old Town's western boundary is the eastern wall of the original Botanical Garden of the Comenius University area, today running partly though a parking lot underneath the Lafranconi Bridge, the boundary then crosses the tram lines of the Nábr.

Case Closed: The Raven Chaser

On the day of Tanabata, Conan corners Vermouth in the underground parking lot of a shopping mall and interrogates her.

Die Hippie, Die

Cartman then pulls out a knife and tells Kyle that he has plans for him; Kyle is then forced to watch Cartman having fun with his Tonka bulldozer in the school parking lot.

Duncan MacPherson

A car he had borrowed from a friend was discovered six weeks later in the parking lot of the Stubaital ski-region resort at the foot of the Stubai Glaciers in the Stubai Alps in Austria, where he had rented a snowboard.

Federation Walk

A natural section of the area known as The Spit, the 3.5 km long Federation Walk begins at a fig tree in the parking lot opposite the entrance to Sea World.

Georgia State Route 10 Loop

At this point the highway right-of-way abuts the University of Georgia campus; immediately north of the College Station Road interchange is an on-ramp from a campus parking lot that is normally closed, but is used on Georgia Bulldogs football home game days to allow departing spectators access onto inner 10 Loop directly from the campus.

Hamilton University

The presence of a small church built in the parking lot had served to make the activity tax free due to federal and state laws, even though the church building had no pews; people in Evanston had never seen services there.

Hastang

The band’s first big break came in May 2005 when they made it to the finals of the MTV Hits Cebu band showdown held at the SM City Cebu Parking Lot.

Historic Third Ward, Milwaukee

In 2010, Erie Street Plaza, a small park and public space built on a former parking lot, opened on the southern edge of the neighborhood, near the confluence of the Milwaukee River and Kinnickinnic River.

IZOD IndyCar World Championships

Starting in 1981, Formula One scheduled a race on laid out in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace hotel.

James McNew

The documentary The Parking Lot Movie highlighted McNew's career as a parking lot attendant in Charlottesville, Virginia, prior to his career as a musician.

Jeff Krulik

He is best known for his 1986 documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot, co-produced by John Heyn, a gently disturbing (but, for the most part, fun-loving) look into hard-rock fandom recorded at the Capital Centre parking lot in Landover, Maryland, before a Judas Priest concert.

Other films are Neil Diamond Parking Lot (1996), about the fans before a Neil Diamond concert at the same stadium as Heavy Metal Parking Lot, one decade later; and Ernest Borgnine On the Bus (1997), a documentary about actor Ernest Borgnine, his son and his custom RV; a compilation of many of the director's short films titled Heavy Metal Parking Lot: The Films of Jeff Krulik was released several years ago.

Joseph Brodak

Brodak was an employee at the Tech Center at General Motors in Centerline, Michigan, when he lost his job for stealing a Corvette from the employee parking lot.

LAPD Hooper Heliport

The Piper Technical Center is also used as a parking lot for some of the LAPD's motor pool including marked and un-marked units, vans, buses, motorcycles, and the V-100 SWAT armored cars.

Lipinski Stradivarius

On January 27, 2014, a Monday, at around 10:20 pm (22:20 CST), Almond was assaulted with a stun gun and the violin was stolen during an armed robbery in a parking lot in the rear of Wisconsin Lutheran College on W. Wisconsin Ave.

Lolohea Mahe

On January 27, 2010, Mahe was arrested in Lahaina, Hawaii after a fight broke out between him and a group of men in the Lahaina Cannery Mall parking lot at 1:25 am.

Marlboro Motor Raceway

The old parking lot area is currently leased out (according to Ghost Tracks by SCCA historian Pete Hylton, the site is being used for leaf mulching) but the track area itself has only been intruded upon by a neighboring branch of the Patuxent River.

Maryland Route 168

Nursery Road continues east into the parking lot for the Nursery Road station of the Baltimore Light Rail.

Motorized recliner incident

On August 31, 2009, he left a local bar in Proctor, Minnesota, after having drunk eight or nine beers, and crashed into a car in the parking lot.

Muckinipattis Creek

Further downstream it flows under the former A&P parking lot in Secane before forming the border of Darby and Ridley townships.

Nails in My Feet

"Four Seasons in One Day" recorded at the parking lot of Capitol Records, Hollywood, 10 July 1991.

National ShamrockFest

ShamrockFest is held in a very large, paved, parking-lot type of area at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium called the RFK Stadium Festival Fairgounds.

Nida Blanca

On November 7, 2001, Blanca was found murdered, beaten and stabbed 13 times in the back seat of her Nissan Sentra in the parking lot of Atlanta Centre in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila where she worked for MTRCB.

Norbert Poehlke

On July 22, 1985, 26-year-old Wilfried Scheider was found shot dead in a parking lot in Beilstein-Schmidhausen.

North Carolina Highway 128

It continues its ascent till it ends at the state park's parking lot, just below the summit of Mount Mitchell, the highest point in eastern North America.

Ogden Mustangs

It is perched on a hill overlooking the greater Ogden Area, and is located in the same parking lot as the Dee Events Center the venue for Weber State Wildcats men's basketball.

Old Middletown Post Office

Across Court Street to the north is the massive Liberty Bank building and to its south across a parking lot; is the Bank of America building.

Pensacola City Hall

Although the building's address places it on Main Street, the parking lot and main entrance are on Reus Street and Spring Street.

Problem Dog

After Skyler (Anna Gunn) tells Walter (Bryan Cranston) that she's negotiated the return of Walter, Jr. (RJ Mitte)'s Dodge Challenger to the dealership, Walter angrily drives the Challenger to a parking lot, burns donuts, and crashes into a parking block, then stuffs the ownership papers in the gas tank, lights them afire, and blows up the car.

Puente Hills

In the scene from Back to the Future (1985 film), Doc Brown introduces the iconic Delorean time machine in the parking lot of Puente Hills Mall.

Shaka Sankofa

Sankofa's supporters, including Coretta Scott King, bishop Desmond Tutu, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and celebrities Danny Glover, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, brought his case international attention, arguing that his conviction was based on the claim that the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she saw him for a few seconds in the dark parking lot committing the murder.

Shartenberg's Department Store

The Shartenberg Site, as it came to be known, was used as a parking lot until 2008, when groundbreaking for the 31-story 360 State Street building commenced.

Templeton Secondary School

Scenes for the movie Personal Effects (2009) starring actors Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer were being filmed in the gym and parking lot of the school as of November 26, 2007.

Terrence Kiel

In July 2003, Kiel was shot three times during an alleged attempted carjacking incident at a southwest Houston mall parking lot.

The Maxwell Show

On April 3, 2009, The Maxwell Show went on the air claiming (falsely) that Metallica – in Cleveland for the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony the very next day – was playing a free show in the WMMS parking lot that evening.

WCCB

The station's former tower was located adjacent to the studio in the parking lot of the old Charlotte Coliseum.

Westfest

In 2011, the Westfest main stage was positioned behind the Real Canadian Superstore parking lot, a strategy that would quadruple the space create a fully licensed audience area.