Congratulations Paulos and Fikru! Paulos Tadesse is Colonial’s Newest General Manager! Paulos has been with Colonial for the past 8 years. He began his career as a parking attendant and climbed his way to General Manager. His extensive experience from Project Manager to Senior Operations Manager made him known as a”fixer” at Colonial […]
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Nationals MVP Winner
At the conclusion of the 2017 National’s Baseball season they announced the 2017 TEAM Service All-Star MVP Winners. The selection of the MVP is completed by the fans during the last week of the regular season. We are excited to announce that this year, fans selected Colonial Parking’s Robert Guest (pictured below) as our […]
Tour De Garage: Connecting Office to Field
Colonial Parking believes that having a strong, more robust knowledge of our locations helps to better serve our customers, so we conceptualized a plan to provide interactive training to our office staff, while also being efficient in use of our time and resources. Our Customer Care and Remote Management Center Managers organized a plan […]
Utilizing Digital Tools to Foster Productivity
Colonial Parking recently hosted it’s latest Training Forum on August 24th. The training focused on organization and efficiency, highlighting tips and strategies our employees can use to be more productive by utilizing digital tools, like Microsoft Outlook’s calendar, reminders and tasks. The trainers emphasized finding the best method that works for each individual employee […]
Opening at The Wharf
We are excited to announce the opening of our newest location at The Wharf! A mega project on the South East waterfront, The Wharf is set to include a variety of fine dining options, luxury apartments, condos and hotels, a yacht club, a new concert venue, and, of course, an underground parking facility. While […]
Problem Solvers: Unique Development Challenges Need Unique Solutions
With a quick glance at our skyline, it is easy to tell that there is no shortage of new development throughout the DC Metropolitan area. Luckily for us, Colonial Parking is often called upon well in advance to help plan and manage the systems and layouts of the increasingly complex parking garage structures and […]
Well Deserved: February 2017
Congratulations! Sirak Zeleke is Colonial’s Newest Assistant Project Manager Sirak has been with Colonial Parking® for 25 years starting as an attendant at Children’s Hospital. He then gained more responsibilities when he was promoted to Shift Manager. Most recently, he has moved to Holy Cross Hospital as their new Assistant Project Manager. Steven Kopelman says of Zeleke: […]
Impactful Gatherings
Colonial® is focused on and dedicated to the empowerment and training of our employees, and in the past couple of weeks we’ve had a couple of great sessions with the aim to do both of those things. COLONIAL TOWN HALL: A Place for Discussion This past week, Colonial Parking® hosted our third Town Hall meeting […]
Well Deserved: January 2017
Congratulations! Dickson Gateri is Colonial’s Newest Project Manager Dickson joined the Colonial Parking® team as an Assistant Project Manager at Children’s National in February of 2016 having previously worked at the Four Seasons in a supervisory role. He moved from Children’s National to Holy Cross Hospital, maintaining his role as Assistant Project Manager and has now become […]
Change Management: A Good Team Makes the Difference
Acquiring or changing parking providers may seem like a daunting task, an abundance of paperwork and meetings and maybe even confused or disgruntled tenants. Colonial Parking® ensures that with us, that is not the case. With over 60 years of experience and 240 plus locations in the DC Metro area, we know how to make […]