Facilitron’s School Facility Rental Platform Gains Traction
Brief Article Summary:
Author Brian Martucci explores Facilitron's growing partnership with Florida school districts in his recent article. He highlights how the school facility rental platform now serves nearly 50% of Florida schools, including some of the largest U.S. school districts. Martucci delves into Facilitron's mission to optimize facility rentals and revenue, replacing outdated systems with a more comprehensive approach.
A key focus of Martucci's piece is the importance of matching rental fees with actual facility management costs. He explains how Facilitron helps districts understand the true costs of maintaining and replacing heavily used assets, enabling them to set more appropriate rental fees. This data-driven approach, Martucci notes, has led some districts to significantly increase their rental revenue, ensuring that funds generated from facility use can be reinvested into maintaining and improving these spaces.
Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Facilitron is a comprehensive and data-driven facilities management platform and public spaces rental marketplace with a mission to help operators like schools and cities meet community space rental needs in a more effective way. By integrating work orders, facility use scheduling and the leasing process of facilities and public/private spaces into one singular system-of-record, Facilitron allows operators like public schools to showcase and monetize their spaces, keeping them safe and secure while also funding their upkeep, maintenance and staffing. As the world's largest public spaces marketplace, with more than 10,000 schools across 31 states and billions of square feet of facility space on its platform, Facilitron has processed and supported millions of community events since its founding in 2014. Beyond simply providing software and marketplace capabilities, Facilitron provides its partners with valuable business and financial services and serves as an advisory partner to train and support administrators and develop customized facility management programs, generating millions of dollars in additional revenue for the schools and other public space operators while better serving community needs.
