Bentley Residences Sunny Isles Beach: Every Unit Gets a Car Elevator and a Private Pool

Most luxury new development marketing involves some degree of aspiration gap — the distance between what the building claims and what it actually delivers. Bentley Residences Sunny Isles Beach has narrowed that gap to nearly nothing, because the building’s primary promise is so specific and so concrete that it either delivers or it doesn’t: every single residence gets its own private car elevator to its own private sky garage and its own private swimming pool.

Not penthouses. Not premium configurations. Every residence.

This is the most audacious residential amenity commitment in South Florida’s development history. It is also the commitment most likely to produce the specific buyer who will pay whatever the building costs to live there — because there is no other building in the world that offers this combination at residential scale.

The Concept: Automotive Identity as Architectural Principle

The Bentley automotive brand — founded in 1919 in Crewe, England, and now owned by Volkswagen Group — occupies a specific position in the luxury automotive landscape: not the most aggressive, not the most exclusive, but the most enduringly refined. Bentley’s specific value proposition is the grand touring car — the vehicle that is as comfortable covering 1,000 miles in a day as it is being displayed at a motor concours. Power and elegance in precise proportion.

This brand identity — precision, refinement, and the car as an expression of the owner’s personality rather than merely their wealth — is the conceptual foundation of Bentley Residences. The building does not decorate a conventional residential tower with Bentley branding. It rebuilds the residential tower around the car as a primary design element.

The patented car elevator — which Bentley calls the “Dezervator” in partnership with developer Gil Dezer, who pioneered the concept at Porsche Design Tower in 2017 — carries each resident’s vehicle from the building’s lobby-level auto court to the specific floor’s private sky garage. The sky garage is physically adjacent to the residence’s main living area, separated by a glass wall that makes the car visible from the living room. The car is not stored; it is displayed.

The Building: 62 Stories, 216 Residences, Sunny Isles Beach

Bentley Residences occupies a prime Sunny Isles Beach oceanfront site at 18401 Collins Avenue — directly on the Atlantic Ocean, in the corridor of international luxury residential towers that has established Sunny Isles as South Florida’s most globally recognized high-rise luxury address. At 62 stories, the building is not the tallest in Sunny Isles — the St. Regis Residences Sunny Isles Beach towers reach higher — but is among the most spatially generous, because every floor serves fewer residences than a conventional tower of comparable height would.

The architecture by Sieger Suarez — the Miami firm responsible for the Porsche Design Tower and multiple other South Florida luxury towers — applies the Bentley aesthetic to a residential tower: a facade that references the brand’s horizontal emphasis and chrome detail language in a way that is identifiable without being costume-like.

The Sky Garage: The Building’s Defining Architectural Element

The sky garage at each residence is a room in the home — not a parking space, not a storage function, but a room with its own design, its own climate control, and its own relationship to the residence’s main living area through the glass wall that separates them.

The sky garage at Bentley is sized for large vehicles — the Bentley Bentayga (5.1 meters long), the Rolls-Royce Cullinan (5.3 meters), and the Lamborghini Urus (5.0 meters) all fit within the garage’s dimensions. The elevator itself is built for these vehicle classes, with width and weight capacity specified to accommodate the luxury SUVs and grand touring cars that the building’s buyer demographic drives.

The organization of the Bentley residence floor at a typical story: the car elevator arrives at the landing; the sky garage is immediately adjacent; the private terrace and pool area adjoins the garage; and the main living area connects to the pool terrace through full-height retractable glazing. The sequence is deliberate — the car, the outdoor life, the indoor life — all on the same floor, all accessible from each other without re-entering the building’s common areas.

The Private Pool: Every Residence, Every Floor

The private swimming pool at every Bentley residence is sized for genuine swimming rather than merely cosmetic water. The pools are heated, thermostatic, and positioned on the private terrace with the Atlantic Ocean visible at approximately the same elevation as the pool’s far edge — creating the horizon-pool visual effect that makes swimming in the building feel continuous with swimming in the ocean beyond.

The terrace configuration at Bentley is among the most generous of any active South Florida new development — deep enough to accommodate the pool, a full outdoor dining area, and the built-in summer kitchen that the building specifies for every residence. The full-retractable glazing between the living room and the pool terrace eliminates the indoor-outdoor boundary entirely, producing a single continuous living and swimming environment.

The Residences: Configuration and Specification

Bentley Residences’ 216 units are configured primarily as three- and four-bedroom residences — floor plans that maximize the terrace footprint relative to interior area, reflecting the developer’s understanding that the pool terrace is the building’s primary lifestyle space.

• Sub-Zero column refrigeration, including wine storage units
• Wolf cooktops and wall ovens — full suite
• Custom cabinetry with Bentley-designed hardware details
• Stone countertops throughout kitchen and bathrooms
• Primary bathrooms with freestanding soaking tubs, heated stone floors, and fixtures in Bentley-specific finish hardware
• Smart home integration for climate, glazing, lighting, and the car elevator system

The building’s smart home platform is specifically designed to control the car elevator — residents summon their vehicle from the lobby auto court through the same interface that manages their home’s lighting and climate. The integration of automotive and residential technology into a single control environment is one of the building’s genuinely novel design achievements.

The Amenities Beyond the Sky Garage

• Beach club and oceanfront pool deck: Direct Atlantic beach access with full pool service
• Spa and fitness center: Technogym equipment, full spa treatment rooms
• Restaurant and bar: Building-level food and beverage programming
• Whisky and cigar lounge: Social amenity for the building’s specific buyer demographic
• Private cinema: Grand-touring-cabin design aesthetic applied to the screening room environment
• Concierge and lifestyle management: 24-hour service programming

The Price Architecture and Market Positioning

Bentley Residences Sunny Isles Beach is priced from approximately $4.5M for lower-floor three-bedroom configurations to $30M+ for penthouse and upper-floor residences. The PSF range of approximately $3,000–$5,000+ PSF reflects the private pool and sky garage as standard features — amenities that at any other building would be penthouse-only.

Who Is Buying Bentley Residences

The Bentley buyer is the automotive enthusiast as primary identity — the buyer for whom the car is not transportation but expression, collection, and daily ritual. This buyer owns multiple vehicles, has a relationship with specific makes and models that is personal rather than functional, and has been waiting for a building that treats the car with the same seriousness that they do.

This buyer exists across multiple nationalities — American, Brazilian, Venezuelan, Russian, Saudi Arabian — but shares a specific psychology: the appreciation for precision engineering, the enjoyment of performance, and the understanding of a vehicle as an artifact worth displaying rather than hiding.