Palm Coast has approved a proposed luxury car condo slated for the west side of the city.

The proposed Hargrove Car Club sits on 36 acres at 11 Hargrove Lane, northwest of the Highway U.S. 1 and Palm Coast Parkway intersection. The lot is owned by JB Gelman Companies, LLC, who purchased the property in 2020. 

“This is an exciting project,” Deputy Chief Development Officer Ray Tyner said. “It’s been a very, very long time since we had some raw land that’s located in our oldest industrial zone in the city of Palm Coast.”

The car club’s plan includes some office space for trades-type businesses — like tiling or plumbing, but not retail businesses because of the land’s industrial zoning — and multiple car condo spaces, senior planner Bill Hoover said. The council approved the application in a 5-0 vote.

The design includes 220,000 square feet of building area, split into two construction phases. The site would have 15 buildings built in phase one, including seven flex-warehouse buildings, one club house and seven car condo buildings. Phase two is unplanned at this time, but has the potential for more condo units, according to the City Council meeting documents.

The car club will have around 50 car condo units, with each unit 25 feet wide and 50 feet deep.

A car condo is typically a warehouse-style building designed to store and showcase luxury cars, RVs, boats or motorcycles. The Hargrove Car Club will also have a club house for owners to enjoy and a car wash station to use, Hoover said.

Alliant Engineering engineer Curt Wimpee, representing JB Gelman, said the project will hopefully be completed in a year, once the application is approved. 

“There’s been some interest, obviously in the car condos, and in the flex space,” Wimpee said.