- The Premier Parking team in the early 2000s with just under 50 employees. Today Premier has close to 2,000 dedicated, hard-working employees nationwide!
- Then Account Specialist now CEO, Ryan Hunt hands out donuts to parkers on our first day of operations at the Pesca Lot in Nashville in 2007.
- Here is our CMO Lisa Sprouse’s, daughter in front of her artwork of the Nashville skyline that was converted to a sign at one of our lots on Broadway in 2015. Only seven years old at the time, she was already a published artist in downtown Nashville!
- Christina Murray, then General Manager, and Taryn Landon, former Senior Facilities Manager, stand outside Frost Bank Tower in Austin, TX on opening day of the garage in 2016!
- Our famous #shortywannaparkwithme signage was a concept by Chief Marketing Officer Lisa Sprouse, who was the Nashville General Manager at the time. The signage, installed in 2016, gained traction with tourists and locals alike in downtown Nashville. Folks took to social media to share this clever sign, and the hashtag can still be found online with great customer engagement photos to go along with it. To see it yourself, check it out at Hourglass lot located at the Korean Veterans Boulevard Roundabout.
- The Premier Team was out in full force on the St. Louis Cardinal’s 2017 Opening Day! Cardinal Lot, right next to the Cardinals stadium, is the perfect location for gameday parking!
- Part of the signage designed by Chase Graham when he was a patient at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. In 2017, Premier sponsored an artwork contest at the Children’s Hospital and the winner’s designs were converted to signage for Premier lots across Nashville.
- The Premier Parking team in Texas gathers for a leadership retreat with Ryan Hunt, CEO, and William Clay, COO, in 2017.
- A new take on the Premier Parking logo was used for decorating the walls of Premier’s new Headquarters office on 2nd Ave in 2017. This design is made up of various signage over the years. If you look closely, you can see signage for markets like Austin, Detroit, Nashville, and Galveston. You can also spot signage for baseball games, event parking, monthly parking, cruise parking, Nashville Predators’ parking, and more!
- After Hurricane Harvey devasted the Houston area, Premier employees located across the country came together to raise over $10,000 dollars for Premier’s Houston employees who were greatly impacted by the storm. COO William Clay and Regional Vice President overseeing Houston, James Timmons, are pictured here with other past and present Houston team members.
- Gnash, the Nashville Preds’ mascot, made a surprise visit to our 222 Garage in downtown Nashville and helped direct traffic out of the garage in Fall of 2018! Premier has been a sponsor of the Preds since 2015, and we love supporting our hometown team!
- Deanna Lazarus, JeanClaude Msimbe, and Ryan Hunt are all smiles during the opening of Adventura Medical Center Garage in 2018, Premier’s first garage in the Miami, Florida region.
- Premier’s VP of Design, Bob Chapman, meets with valet attendants at the Shinola Hotel in Detroit in 2019. Bob Chapman is well-known in the parking industry for his visionary design and consulting capabilities!
- The Cleveland team was pumped up and ready to go for the MLB All Star Game in 2019! We love any excuse to dress up in our parkster suits!
- Our Detroit team was looking perfectly Premier in their new jackets! They’re always repping Premier rain or snow; most likely snow when it comes to Detroit!
- Nate Sposato and Jeffrey Rentner add the Premier logo to the wall in Salt Lake City to mark Premier’s new market launch. Premier began operations in Salt Lake City in 2019 and we have continued to expand in that market ever since! Look for the scroll “P” in a city near you!
- Members of the Premier Team try out the photo booth at Nashville Business Journal’s Best in Business Awards 2019 ceremony, Premier was a finalist this year.From left to right: Hunter Kitchens (VP General Counsel); BobChapman (VP of Design & Consulting); Lisa Sprouse (Chief Marketing Officer); Ryan Hunt (Chief Executive Officer); William Clay (Chief Operating Officer); Front Row: Owen Sanford (Vice President of Innovation and Technology); Lexi Oberg (Marketing Manager).
- A recently installed sign at our Vision Lot in Nashville sports our slogan ‘Find Your Spot in This World.’ While the sign might be new, the slogan is not, as it began being used in 2018.
- Premier’s very first Metropolis computer vision enabled location at Promenade Garage in Knoxville, TN! Metropolis and Premier announced their partnership in April 2021 and have since been converting facilities to computer vision across the country. In just six months, almost 50 locations have been converted to computer vision.
- White Front Garage, located on 2nd North in downtown Nashville, was the first Nashville garage to have the new Metropolis computer vision technology installed in April 2021!