On the Charleston peninsula, at Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant, and on Isle of Palms there are now parking lots that require customers to pay by texting and then opening a website link on their smartphones. We are the first lot in downtown Charleston to move away from a gated system to a purely text-to-pay platform, said Joshua Schaap with Charleston Commercial, which manages the lots. âIt is just completely game-changing.
The 152-space George Street Parking lot just switched to that system this month. That lot was part of a 2019 $24.5 million downtown real estate deal, and the surface parking lot continues to operate while long-term development plans are considered.