Klaus Parking Systems Atlantic plans Cyber Place apartments in North Miami

The U.S. division of Klaus Parking Systems, which manufactures mechanical parking systems, has proposed an apartment complex in North Miami that would showcase its technology.

The city's Planning Commission will consider the plan for Cyber Place building on April 5. Klaus Haus LLC, managed by Bruce E. Roden, the CEO of North Miami-based Klaus Parking Systems Atlantic, owns the 1.46-acre site at 12450 and 12304 N.E. 13th Ave. It's on the south side of Northeast 125th Street.

The developer assembled the property for a combined $2.79 million in 2018 and 2019. It currently has a 7,502-square-foot commercial building and a single-family home. They would both be demolished to make way for the project.

Cyber Place would total 304,043 square feet in 12 stories, with 218 apartments, 2,300 square feet of retail on the first floor, 1,500 square feet of offices on the second floor, and a 293-space parking garage utilizing Klaus Parking Systems’ mechanical lift technology.

The applicant is seeking a waiver to provide 15% fewer parking spaces than normally required for a building of that size.

"The use of the state-of-the-art parking system blends innovative design with premiere architecture to ensure that the façade of the location of the parking spaces looks entirely as a mixed-use development and nothing like a parking garage," Pedro Gassant, who represents the developer, stated in the application.

The Germany-based company would install the Klaus Multipark TrendVario 6300+ in the building. All of the parking spaces would be on the first floor, with the vehicles triple-stacked and tandem parked by utilizing lifts. Residents would use a remote transmitter to both place their vehicles in the stack and retrieve it.

By housing all 293 parking spaces on the ground floor, that would allow the developer to utilize more space in the building for apartments.

Units in Cyber Place would range from 688 to 1,180 square feet. It would have 54 one-bedroom units, 152 two-bedroom units, and 12 three-bedroom units. There would be a pool atop the parking garage.

The developer said 32 of the two-bedroom apartments would be workforce housing for people earning up to 120% of area median income.

The median household income in North Miami is $41,611.

Miami Lakes-based Valent Architect designed the project. Gassant couldn't be reached for further comment.

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