Students devise parking rental platform for sporting events

FORT COLLINS — Two Colorado State University students are using their knowledge of their college — specifically, its lack of parking — to launch their business.

Cody GrandPre and Stein Chistensen, both CSU seniors, developed a website called ParkIt, where people can rent out their driveways for football games. The service is limited to the University of Colorado Boulder and CSU and to sporting events, but the two already have plans to expand to other campuses and occasions.

GrandPre said he and Christensen were inspired to make the website after…