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Engineering Marvel Dezervator Soon to Serve Florida’s Bentley Residences

The brainchild of billionaire Florida real estate developer Gil Dezer, the trademarked Dezervator, a complex elevator system for cars, already serves residents wealthy enough to call the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach (on a barrier island just north of Miami) home. Within the next several years, the technology looks to be coming to Dezer’s latest project: Bentley Residences, a 61-story development in Sunny Isles Beach that aims to become the tallest beachfront residential tower in the U.S. at 749 ft upon completion, anticipated in 2026. Carscoops recently reported on the specifics of the single-car, 8000-lb capacity, 800 ft/min elevator, stating:

“The ride starts simply enough as you drive into the building with your vehicle. All residents’ vehicles will be fitted with an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag that automatically gives them access to the building and starts a light show to direct them to where they should stop, kind of like an automatic car wash. From there, a hydraulic system pinches the car by its tires and pulls it onto a robotic shuttle system, which carries the car, with its driver inside, to the correct floor and unit (including the penthouse). The start of the ride should be scenic, too, because the Dezervator is enclosed in glass, allowing riders to see the common spaces on the lower levels of the building.”

Each residence will have its own built-in garage, which car and driver enter after the Dezervator stops and rotates on a — for lack of a better term — turntable. Owners of several Bentleys or Maybachs might want to opt for a residence on the tower’s east side, which can accommodate a 1,552-ft2 garage with space for up to four vehicles. Other residences will come with 1,145-ft2 garages that can each house up to three vehicles. For those driving EV (electric vehicle) like Teslas, each garage boasts a charging port. At about the 3:35 mark of this YouTube video, Estate Central provides a nice look at Bentley Residences’ Dezervator in action.

The Dezervator was conceived for Dezer by Rob Bailey of Chicago-based Mid-American Elevator (a company that also designed a complex lifting system for NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.) Mid-American worked with an array of partners and suppliers to make the impressive, patented Dezervator a reality. It’s ELEVATOR WORLD’s hope to one day (sooner rather than later) experience the Dezervator — and the rest of Bentley Residences’ no-doubt impressive elevator system — for ourselves.