“I am building this space because I am the target customer,” says Matt Farah, who broke ground on West Side Collector Car Storage in Los Angeles last May. “In L.A., especially the beach cities, folks are not limited by money, only by space: You see $5 to $10 million beach townhomes and condos with one- or two-car garages and literally no driveway. I have been looking to be a customer of a place like this for at least five years, but it just didn’t exist at all, so I decided to build it myself.”

Farah designed his club to cater to the particular logistics of handling special cars in an urban environment. For instance, the basement was measured such that a Corvette ZR1—one of the longest sports cars you can buy—will be able to drive straight on down without having to turn on an angle. The facility will be built from the ground up atop a 31-inch concrete slab to withstand earthquakes, fires, and floods. It will have the first indoor quad-stacking system in Los Angeles, and the first quad-stacking system built over a basement anywhere in the world.

Inside, member benefits will include social activities, on-site food and drink, and a members’ lounge filled with warm wood tones and leather seating. Farah will begin taking deposits for his club in March, at rates ranging from $800 to $1,500 per month per spot, depending on frequency of usage and whether the member feels OK about staff shuffling their cars. Doors open in summer 2019.

“While I can’t say I’ve thought of every single thing, so far no one has had a question that I haven’t been able to answer,” Farah says.

Across the country, Jonathan Lloyd-Jones had the same idea. His Hudson Stables is a five-minute drive from the Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey. Inside, club-owned white 1980s-era Porsche 928s sit in 15,000 square feet of storage spaces in “climate-controlled luxury.” There are well-stocked refrigerators and dual racing simulators. Club members travel to ice driving races together and gather to screen daredevil motorcycle rallies on multiple cinema projectors in the clubhouse. Members can sell rare and collectible cars on consignment there, or just hang out. Entrance fees are $495 per month.

Classic Car Club in New York set the tone for the trend. Though it doesn’t offer the storage capacity of Kogan’s Otto club and others, it has been a social-club fixture in the city’s car culture for more than a dozen years. In 2016 it relocated uptown from a warehouse in Tribeca to the old police stables on the West Side Highway—a move that eased the drive from Manhattan to upstate and into good driving roads in New Jersey, says co-owner Michael Prichinello.

Owned and operated by Prichinello, Zac Moseley, and Phil Kavanagh, CCC Manhattan’s 1,000-plus members pay a combination of $180 in monthly dues and then purchase “points” that buy driving days for the car of their choice. A year of driving (35 days behind the wheel) costs $9,000.

The club has a full restaurant, bar and lounge, multiple $70,000 race simulators, and boat storage with direct access to the Hudson River. It includes a garage for working on members’ cars along with some limited storage potential. Weekly cocktail hours, Halloween parties, and runway shows during New York Fashion Week are also on the docket. The 38 club-owned cars include modern McLarens, BMWs, Lamborghinis, and classics such as the 1966 Ford GT, a 1991 Acura NSX, and 1989 Lancia Delta rally car. Not to mention a handful of Porsche 911s all tuned to varying degrees.

It sounds like rarefied air because it is, though Prichinello says he works daily to make it relatively accessible. “Club memberships” offered at a discount price allow those members to visit the restaurant, use the simulators, take photos on the gallery-esque warehouse floor, and drool over the sensuous machines—everything but drive the cars.

The same goes for Kogan, whose Otto club boasts members from ages 30 to 70.