Miami's newest luxury condo will allow you to ride right to your condo

The elevator will whisks residents to their condos while they are still in the driver’s seat.

A rendering of the 57-story condo planned for Sunny Isle Beach. The building features glass elevators that whisk drivers with the cars directly to their homes.

The planned $560 million tower will rise in Sunny Isles Beach as part of a collaboration between Germany-based Porsche Design Group and a local developer, Gil Dezer. It likely will be the world’s first condominium complex with elevators that will take residents directly to their units while they are sitting in their cars. You won’t have to leave your car until you are in front of your apartment.

Here is how it will work: After the resident pulls over and switches off the engine, a robotic arm that works much like an automatic plank will scoop up the car and put it into the elevator. Once at the desired floor, the same robotic arm will park the car, leaving the resident nearly in front of his front door.


The elevators will give residents and their guests unparalleled views of the city or of the ocean during their high-speed ride, expected to last 45 to 90 seconds.

What this is really doing is taking two technologies that have existed for centuries and putting them together. It’s taking the robotic arm and it’s putting it in an elevator.

The building, to named Porsche Design Tower, was approved unanimously last week by the Sunny Isles Beach City Commission.

The cylindrical building will be erected on 2.2 acres of land at 18555 Collins Avenue. The 57-story luxury tower will have 132 units. Smaller units will be allocated two parking spaces and larger ones will have four, with 284 robotic parking spaces in total. There will be three elevators.

Residents will be able to see their cars from their living rooms.

Units will range from 3,800 to 9,500 square feet and could cost up to $9 million.