A company led by Mark S. Gold, founder of The Ticket Clinic, advanced plans to build a condo-style storage facility in Pembroke Pines for collectors of expensive cars.
The Pembroke Pines City Commission voted Wednesday to rezone the development site of the unnamed car-storage condominium on Pines Boulevard west of I-75.
The development would have 44,000 square feet of car storage space divided among 26 condo units, an average of nearly 1,700 square feet per unit, plus a mezzanine spanning 13,000 square feet.
Unit prices and other details, such as construction financing and a timeline for completion, have not been disclosed.
“This is a relatively new concept that provides high-end car collectors with a place to securely store their luxury vehicles,” Julian Bobilev, an attorney for the owner of the development site, Dorado Bells LLC, wrote in a letter to Pembroke Pines’ director of planning and development.
In the Feb. 6 letter, Bobilev said the car condo planned in Pembroke Pines would be similar to Auto Vault in Fort Lauderdale, at the northeast corner of Marina Boulevard and I-95.
Car condos at a 52,000-square-foot addition to the Auto Vault in Fort Lauderdale, completed in August, averaged 1,200 square feet, and the last one sold for $565 per square foot, said Robert Zinzell, a commercial real estate agent who handled many of the sales and who specializes in representing car condo developers.
Attorney Gold, who declined to comment on his car-storage project, founded the law firm known as The Ticket Clinic in 1987. According to its website, The Ticket Clinic has 40 offices in Florida, Georgia and California, and represents motorists charged with offenses such as speeding, driving with a suspended license, and driving while intoxicated.
Led by Gold, Miami-based Dorado Bells paid $502,200 to acquire the 1.9-acre development site at 18810 Pines Boulevard in 2020, according to state corporate records and Broward County property records. Dorado Bells bought the vacant site through a tax sale certificate deal after the previous owner failed to pay property taxes on time.
The site of the planned car condo is near two self-storage buildings, branded as Extra Space Storage and SmartShop Self Storage, and a charter school called Franklin Academy.
The city commission rezoned the car condo site from “commercial” (C-1) to “general business” (B-3), and Dorado Bells agreed to submit a declaration of restrictive covenants adding self-storage to the limited uses permitted in the B-3 district.