What is MPA?
Miami Parking Authority, officially known as the Department of Off-Street Parking of the City of Miami, was created in 1955 by a Special Act of the Florida State Legislature and incorporated into the City of Miami's Charter in 1968.
MPA manages and develops on- and off-street parking in the City of Miami. It shares responsibility with the City of Miami Police Department and Miami-Dade County for enforcement of parking regulations.
MPA is a self-sustaining agency managed by parking industry professionals and financed by parking revenues. Funds not used by operations are returned to the City of Miami, and all ticket citation revenues are payable directly to Miami-Dade County.
MPA provides parking for approximately 6 million vehicles annually. View Miami Parking Authority 2009 Annual Report. Currently the Miami Parking Authority has over 31,000 parking spaces under management, including:
• 11 garages
• 86 surface lots
• 507 Pay and Display meters
• More than 9,100 metered spaces
A unique non-parking responsibility of the Authority is the management of The Gusman Center for the Performing Arts and the Olympia Office Building. The Gusman Center complex was donated to the City of Miami in 1975 with the stipulation that the facility be managed by MPA. The Olympia Office Building has since been leased to a private developer who converted the offices into low-income affordable residential housing, while each year the historic Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center hosts numerous film festivals and various types of performance.