Recent research has shown that there is a continuous trend of declining vehicle purchasing and an overarching effort for the usage of public transportation and ride-sharing. Car registrations have been steadily dropping since 2015. Costly, massive, and sometimes, inefficient, parking structures are growing into a degenerated architectural type, while occupying valuable space in city centers.

Accompanying the decline of parking structure usage is the intense demand for food supplies. According to the article “Growing Cities, Growing Food Insecurity: How to Protect the Poor during Rapid Urbanization” from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, rapid immigration growth and population increase in the city has caused a gap in food supply and food demand resulting in an urban food crisis in areas lacking of cash flow among the dwellers. The adaptive reuse of parking structures might be a solution to urban food infrastructure Thus, this introduces the idea of Lot’O’Food.