It was the solution to a space crunch: The townhouses’ only street access is a narrow, shared alleyway.
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Sandy Huffaker for The Wall Street Journalĭecided to install fob-operated car turners in the garages of four luxury townhouses that his Alloy company was building in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. Canter’s 19.6 foot turntable can be rotated 180 degrees. The owner got a turntable with its own built-in wash stall.” “I looked at one a couple of months ago-a $2 million garage with a McLaren, an Aston Martin and a Bentley. “I’m starting to see it all throughout the mid-Atlantic,” Mr. With the Chubb insurance company’s personal appraisal department, who evaluates high-end properties on the East Coast.
Turntables are trending among the ultrawealthy, according to Canter, who said the cost of his house “started at $1,000 a square foot, and probably went over.” “I want my cars to be comfortable,” said Mr. The garage is bathed in custom lighting, and music plays on a built-in sound system. Canter’s Ferrari is misaligned, safety sensors will stop the turntable before the car can knock into a wall. Built into the white epoxy floor, the stainless steel platform table is operated by remote control if Mr. A hydraulic ramp was designed to incline upward and flatten at the entryway, then lower to a near horizontal position in front of the turntable. The ambitious design necessitated a steep driveway to the underground garage-too steep for his low-slung sports cars to handle without nose-diving into the garage floor. Canter’s 3,250-square-foot house takes up almost every inch of its tight, 2,700-square-foot lot. Now, “a lot of high end homes are being built that need it for access.
“They kind of went by the wayside for a long time,” said Mr. mansion, so that his Rolls Royce could be spun to face the manse’s narrow, curving drive. The tobacco magnate, installed a hand-turned one in the basement of his Charlotte, N.C. Had garage turntables to accommodate their car collections. “At any time, I probably have 40 to 45 residential jobs going at once,” he said, adding that an average home installation costs between $30,000 and $40,000.Ĭar turntables have been used since the turn of the century. Although Carousel sells most of its gear-driven turntables to car dealerships, as well as to industrial manufacturers and the military, home installations now account for 30% of its revenue, Mr. The owner and president of Carousel USA, a 15-year-old vehicle turntable company based in Irwindale, Calif. “Our sales have doubled every year for the last five years,” said
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