Previous PostMarina PARC’s exclusive partnership with Tifon S.A., a global leader in automated boat storage, earns the distinction of being the only proposer in the Virginia Key Marina RFP that has a proven track record of designing, building, and operating automated boat storage facilities. Marina PARC’s boat storage building will be a fully-automated, LEED Gold certified structure housing 582 boats, totaling more than 20,000 linear feet of boat storage.
Automated cranes will be capable of retrieving and storing vessels of up to 40,000 pounds. Marina PARC is providing for fewer but larger slips in order to both lessen the project’s environmental impact as well as address the most under-served segment of the local marina market: increasingly larger vessels. In reducing the amount of slips, Marina PARC takes into account that other required uses such as a new public boat ramp and expanded transient dockage will draw an unprecedented amount of new vessels to the site – thus impacting the surrounding resources and adding to the permitting constraints associated with the marine development of the site.
Marina PARC has partnered with Tifon because the company is a proven leader in the automated storage space, with fully-operational facilities in Argentina already up and running – accounting for over 1500 automated dry slips. Boaters will have the option to make reservations 24-hours a day, either in person or by phone, tablet or computer. Tifon will interface with Rockwell Automation, a US publicly traded company and world leader in industrial automation that will breath life into our state of the art system.
Take a look at the future of Marina PARC’s boat slip system.