A multi-storey car park is a building or part thereof which is designed specifically to be for vehicle parking and where there are a number of floors on which parking takes place. c.f. a car park ( a.k.a. a parking lot ).
exterior ramps - which may take the form of a circular ramp ( a.k.a. a 'whirley-gig' )
In locations where the car park is built on sloping land, the car park may be split level.
Car parks built to serve residential properties are usually below the dwellings, whereas car parks which serve shopping centres can sometimes be built adjacent to the shopping centre so as to effect easier access at each floor between shops and parking.
A multi-storey car park is a building (or part thereof) which is designed specifically to be for automobile parking and where there are a number of floors or levels (stories or storeys) on which parking takes place.
The term parkingramp is used in the upper Midwest, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, and has been sighted as far east as Toledo, Ohio and Buffalo, New York.
In recent times, car parks built to serve residential and some business properties are built as part of a larger building, and often are built underground as part of the basement.