North Scottsdale’s high-end car crowd could be getting a new toy box for their prized rides, as longtime Valley developer Jim Riggs edges closer to launching a luxury car-condo project near the Scottsdale Airpark.
Riggs has filed to rezone a roughly 3.5-acre site at the southwest corner of Bell Road and 91st Street and is in escrow to buy the parcel for just under $20 million. His firm, Platinum Advisors LLC, is marketing the concept as Elite Garages Scottsdale, a boutique collection of private garage condominiums aimed at collectors and owners who want custom, climate-controlled spaces. The site, near Loop 101 and WestWorld, sits in a pocket that is already drawing auto-focused projects, and the proposal lands as another major car-storage club moves ahead at the Perimeter Center to the west.
Proposal Details and Unit Mix
Riggs is seeking a rezoning that would allow 32 garage-condo suites spread across three buildings, with common clubhouse amenities and individual units sold to owners, according to reporting. As detailed by the Phoenix Business Journal, the plan leans on high-clearance units with mezzanines and heavy owner customization. The pitch frames Elite Garages as a private, saleable twist on the car-club model rather than a traditional storage facility.
Finish Line Auto Club Coming to Perimeter Center
Just to the west, Finish Line Auto Club is planning its own high-octane compound: a five-building, roughly 140,000-square-foot car-condo and social-club development at 17600 N. Perimeter Center Drive, the former Fender Musical Instruments headquarters. City of Scottsdale planning documents show the project would feature a roughly 20,000-square-foot clubhouse, with garage units ranging from about 1,000 to 3,000 square feet, mezzanines, and full climate control. ConnectCRE reports Finish Line acquired the property for about $20.7 million and is aiming to start demolition and construction in the coming months.
Rezoning and City Review Will Steer the Calendar
For Elite Garages Scottsdale, Riggs’s team has submitted a rezoning request to allow garage-condo use on the Bell Road parcel. That filing will kick off neighborhood notifications, design review, and public hearings before the city signs off on any shovels in the ground. ABC15 Arizona reports that Riggs is in escrow on the site while the application works its way through Scottsdale’s process.
Finish Line’s Perimeter Center project is further along. The Scottsdale Planning Commission and City Council granted key entitlements last year, though the development is being processed in phases and still faces additional design reviews. AZBEX has outlined the earlier approvals.
What Buyers Can Expect
Developers are pitching these garage condos as something closer to a lifestyle club than a glorified storage unit. Owners can expect taller ceiling heights to fit lifts, plumbing and electrical capacity for showroom-style buildouts, and gated security paired with shared social spaces. Those specs, along with a pre-construction schedule that lists a December 2026 groundbreaking and a Q4 2027 completion, appear on the Elite Garages Scottsdale site.
Marketing materials for both Elite Garages and Finish Line Auto Club spotlight club-style amenities and heavy owner personalization. Finish Line is framing its Scottsdale outpost as the company’s first step outside California.
Next Steps and Timeline
Finish Line is planning a phased construction program at Perimeter Center that starts with three buildings and the main clubhouse. Scottsdale planning documents and AZBEX outline the site’s approvals along with expected demolition and groundbreaking timing.
If Scottsdale signs off on the Bell Road rezoning and remaining design reviews for both projects arrive on schedule, Elite Garages and Finish Line Auto Club would add a very specific, very high-end niche to the city’s commercial mix over the next two years.
