Collections
Storage for wine, art and memorabilia, in a unit you own.
- Unit sizes, sq ft
- 1,350 – 3,724
- Clear ceiling
- 25 ft
The cars are the reason people call. Then, halfway through the walkthrough, it comes out: there is also the wine, which is in three coolers in a hot garage. And the signed memorabilia in the spare bedroom. And forty years of business records in a storage unit off Six Mile Cypress that nobody has opened since 2019.
A motor condominium is a private, conditioned, secure building with your name on the deed. Vehicles are what it was drawn for. They are not the only thing it is good at.
- HVAC per unit
- Dedicated
- Second floor, wet-bar plumbed
- 320 sq ft
Humidity
Humidity is the whole problem, and every unit has its own air conditioning.
Southwest Florida spends roughly half the year with outdoor relative humidity above 70%. Self-storage advertised as climate controlled usually means a building-wide system that holds a broad band during business hours, shared across dozens of units, with a corridor door that opens a hundred times a day.
Here, each unit has its own dedicated HVAC system on its own meter, serving your unit alone, running to your setting, all the time. It is the difference between a shared corridor and a private room.
That distinction is what matters to wine, to paper, to canvas, to photographic prints, to leather and to anything with an adhesive in it. Cork dries and shoulders push when temperature cycles. Paper foxes and cockles. Canvas expands and contracts on the stretcher. Silver tarnishes faster in humid air. Mold does not need standing water, it needs sustained relative humidity in the seventies and something organic to eat.
Four collections, four different fit-outs.
- 01
Wine
Owners frame and insulate a cellar room inside the unit, then run a dedicated cooling unit into it. Building the room inside conditioned space rather than inside a hot garage is what makes the cellar cheap to run and stable to hold.
- 02
Memorabilia and signed pieces
Wall-mounted cases along the long wall, out of direct light, in conditioned air. Ink and photographic emulsions fade under ultraviolet exposure and lift in humidity; there are no windows in the bay.
- 03
Art
Racked storage rather than stacked, in stable conditions. Most owners keep a viewing wall and rotate pieces between the unit and the house.
- 04
Archives and business records
Shelving on the back wall, off the slab, in air that does not swing. If your records are currently in a self-storage unit with a roll-up door and no dedicated air, this is a straightforward upgrade, and it is yours.
What the unit gives a collection.
- Garage door
- 16 ft wide × 14 ft high, insulated
- Clear ceiling height
- 25 ft
- Electrical service
- 220V, 150A, 1 or 3 phase service in every unit, individually metered
- Climate
- Dedicated HVAC system serving your unit alone
- Roof
- 60-mil TPO membrane
- Access
- Gated, 24/7, camera monitored
- Windows in the bay
- None, no ultraviolet exposure
- Second floor
- 320 sq ft, plumbed for a wet bar, the usual tasting or viewing room
- Insurance
- Owners may carry typical condominium contents insurance.
Plans that leave room for more than vehicles.
The cars
Four on the floor, more on lifts
The RV
Driven in with the tow car still hitched
The boat
Trailer and tow vehicle, nine miles inland
The second floor
320 to 960 sq ft, plumbed for a wet bar
Regent
2,350 sq ft · 325 sq ft second floor
2,350 sq ft in an L-shape. The short leg is the natural place to frame a cellar, a case room or an archive, visually and physically separated from the bay where the vehicles live.
Regent plans
Wizard
2,708 sq ft · 650 sq ft second floor
2,708 sq ft double unit. Enough floor area to keep a full collection of vehicles and still dedicate a substantial conditioned room to everything else.
Wizard plansQuestions about collections
The site-wide facts, stated once: 170 mph ultimate design wind speed, FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf, and an association fee of $1,000 per quarter on a 1,350 sq ft unit, increasing pro rata with size. RV dump station on site, included in the association fee. How the building is engineered and what it costs to own are explained in full on their own pages.