What is a car condo? Car condos, garage clubs and members’ clubs, explained

WAREHOUSE opened in Park City, Utah, on 19 January 2024, the week of the Sundance Film Festival. Downstairs are 84 vehicle bays and 24 motorcycle bays. Upstairs is a club level with a restaurant, two bars, a wine room, racing and golf simulators and a boardroom, 27,000 square feet in all. By May 2025 it had about 160 members, 31% of them kept a car there, and its storage spaces had sold out almost immediately, Utah Business reported.

That is the picture most people have when they ask about car condos: a building where enthusiasts keep their cars and also spend their evenings. It is really four different deals, and which one you are offered decides what you pay, what you own and what happens when you want out.

The short version

• Car condo: you buy a deeded garage unit and pay an owners’ association fee. You can sell it. Nobody moves your car for you unless the building sells that service.
• Garage club or storage club: you pay monthly. Staff keep the car, move it, charge it and often clean it, and members share a lounge or café.
• Members’ club with storage: you join a social club. Storing a car is one of the things membership can include, alongside dining, drives and events.
• Track club with garage condos: you buy a garage at a private circuit and join its driving club.

Are car condos new?

Not the idea. Bruno Silikowski opened the first AutoMotorPlex in Chanhassen, Minnesota, during the Great Recession. By 2017 the building held 146 condominiums in 165,000 square feet; the starting price had been $169,000 for about 1,200 square feet with heated floors, fire suppression, floor drains, 100-amp electrical service and rough-ins for a bathroom and a wet bar. It had been full for about five years with more than 300 people on a waitlist, and a second, larger building in Medina was half pre-sold, Twin Cities Business reported.

M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan, had sold its first 80 garage units by March 2016, with 264 planned, at prices from $105,000 for a two-car garage to $550,000 for a 15-car garage, Metromode reported, calling it “the second-largest car condo community in America.” Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Illinois, opened as a members’ racetrack in 2004 and added garage condos later. In 2024 it had 540 members paying an initial membership fee of $50,000 and annual dues of $6,300, according to The Herald-News. By 2022, Business Observer could write that car condos “have been around for more than a decade.”

What is newer is the clubhouse coming first. Hagerty, the collector car insurer, built storage clubhouses under the Garage + Social name; its site now lists three, in Miami, Van Nuys and Toronto. WAREHOUSE opened in 2024. In 2026 Carriage House opened in Richmond, Virginia, Park + Social opened in Glen Arm, Maryland, and Cannonball Club was set to open its clubhouse in a former elevator works in Philadelphia that September. XAVO Motor Club, a club with car condos and display suites, was approved for Ashburn, Virginia, in January 2026 and is not yet built.

Car condos: you buy the garage

A car condo is real estate. You buy a unit, you hold the deed, and an owners’ association runs the building and the shared spaces. “Customers own these spaces outright; this is a piece of real estate for them that they can buy and resell,” Metromode wrote of M1 Concourse. What goes inside is up to you. “Members range from keeping it simple to making it the ultimate urban cabin,” AutoMotorPlex’s marketing director told Twin Cities Business.

Business Observer reported in 2022 that units at The Motor Enclave in Tampa ran from $300,000 to $1.7 million, with a $30,000 joining fee and a $6,000 annual fee; the Enclave now lists more than 300 private garages from 657 to 4,400 square feet beside its own 1.72-mile circuit. The same report put the monthly fee at Elite Garage Suites in St. Petersburg at $150, and at Naples Motor Condos at more than $250. A developer’s spokesperson called the concept a “country club without a golf course.”

What a condo does not usually come with is staff. Unless the building sells that service, the battery tender, the cover and the car’s condition are your job. Read the association’s rules before you buy, not after: they decide whether you can work on the car, stay late, run a business from the unit or rent it out.

Garage clubs and storage clubs: you pay monthly

A storage club keeps the car for you. At Cannonball Club in Fishtown, Philadelphia, membership is $250 a month and storing a car costs an extra $550 a month, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in August 2026. The building, about 15,000 square feet and once the Morse Elevator Works, holds 75 cars, moves them by elevator and needs staff present, so members schedule pick-up and drop-off. “This is more like a car museum,” said its founder, Chris Allen. A café at street level is open to the public.

One Drivers Club in Bedford Hills, New York, which says it was founded more than 20 years ago, lists storage “beginning at $625” a month before taxes and fees, with valet storage, fee-based pick-up and drop-off, climate control, detailing, maintenance programs and transport. Carriage House in Richmond lists storage units from $355 a month. A storage club with its prices posted in Raleigh, and how its rates compare with self-storage, is in How much does car storage cost.

Members’ clubs with storage: you join

At WAREHOUSE the club is the product and storage is part of it. Utah Business reported four sources of revenue: a one-time initiation fee, monthly dues with minimum spends, events and full-service storage fees. None of the amounts is published. TownLift reported in 2024 that the first phase, members who store and display a car, had sold out with a waitlist, and that the second phase, social members without storage, was limited to 250. The club’s own FAQ says it is not open to the public, that it is currently accepting social membership applications, and that a membership committee reviews each one after a private tour. Its membership includes spouses and children under 25 at no extra charge.

The calendar is the point. The club lists track days, scenic rallies, guest chef dinners and weekly socials, and its 2024 opening release described a European rally ending at the Monaco Grand Prix. In August 2026 its fifth annual Cars & Cocktails at Promontory drew more than 100 cars, TownLift reported.

Track clubs with garage condos

At a private circuit the garage is a pit box you own. The Motor Enclave sits on a 200-acre campus with its 1.72-mile circuit, a two-acre skid pad and 100 acres of off-road trails, and it reserves weekly track sessions and resort amenities for its garage owners. Autobahn and M1 Concourse work the same way. Here you are paying for the track and its club as well as the garage.

Where they are

The directory of car condos and garage clubs lists every one Driven Life has checked, by state, with what each publishes about price and whether it is open, being built or still a plan. Florida, Arizona and Texas have the most entries. If you run one and it is missing or out of date, every page has a correction form.

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Mario Bailey

Founder, Driven Life

Mario Bailey founded Driven Life, which is published by Revlent LLC. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a tech founder, and has worked as a software engineer for more than ten years. He edits the site and is responsible for every page on it: the meet, club and rally guides, the metro and state hubs, the car and tool pages, and the magazine.