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Simplifying Life Through Technology
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Octane Park: Ernest Pruitt
On this episode of “Simplifying Life Through Technology,” Mark, Zach, and Andrew sit down with Ernest Pruitt from Octane Park Luxury Garages.
Located in the vibrant Morrison Plantation, Octane Park offers a unique take on personalized luxury spaces. These units aren’t your typical garages—they’re fully customizable sanctuaries where owners can bring their unique vision to life. Whether it’s a sleek showroom for a prized car collection, a creative studio, a home office, or a dynamic entertainment hub, each two-story, 2250-square-foot unit is a blank slate ready to be transformed.
Ernest shares his path through commercial property development, unveiling the inspirations and challenges behind crafting these high-end sanctuaries. With a community-centric vision of Octane Park, these units are where creativity, community, and personal interests thrive. With SoundVision on board as a trusted partner, these spaces are primed for cutting-edge technology and lifestyle enhancements, adding convenience and sophistication to your customized retreat. With construction already underway, now is the time to reserve your unit and embrace a new era of luxury living.
Tune in to hear Ernest discuss the concept of luxury garages, what sets Octane Park apart, and how these versatile units offer a new approach to luxury ownership and lifestyle. Discover how these unique garages are redefining personal enjoyment, luxury investment, and the endless possibilities for creating your ultimate escape!
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So joining us in the podcast studio today we have Ernest Pruitt of Octane Park. Welcome.
Speaker 2:Ernest, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, we're happy to have you. Ernest, tell us what the heck is Octane Park, give us a little high level of you and Octane Park in general All right, very good.
Speaker 2:Octane Park is made up of 44 individual what I consider luxury garages, or luxury entertainment garages LEGS for short and when I say entertainment I don't mean necessarily entertainment that you're inviting people over and having a party and that type of thing, which you're more than welcome to do that in these. But really what it's all about is whatever entertains you. So if your exotic car collection is what entertains you, that's what you use octane park luxury garages for hold on, let's stop for just a sec.
Speaker 1:Luxury garages this is a pretty big like all of a sudden this became a thing.
Speaker 2:It's been really recent, right well, you have a couple of different things that are going on. You have, in the building, from a residential standpoint, you have people that are building what they call barn dominiums yeah, sure, and basically there are warehouses attached, you know, kind of like to a little apartment. It's all kind of very similar. You have a place to put your toys, your four-wheelers, your motorcycles, your cars your boats A yeah yeah, but some of these also, you can live them as well.
Speaker 2:Now, that's not Octane Park, but that's really more the Barnuminium style, yeah, and most of them, though, are very large. I mean not necessarily, but for the most part, you're seeing 5,000 square feet, 10,000, 12,000 square feet that type of thing Very, very large.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's a good-sized shop. Oh yeah, it's very large side of that. You have some of the car clubs, which I'm not putting them down. They're fine for what they are, but a lot of times they're more like glorified uh mini storage units. So you just had these metal uh storage, um, uh, places to store your cars or again, your boat or what have you, or your or your rv. This just kind of takes that to the next level. And, and when I looked at barn dominiums, I, for my own use, I didn't want a second home. Uh, I did want a place to store my toys and all this type of thing, but I certainly didn't want the upkeep of a second home. I need 5,000 square feet, uh, I'm not a car guy, and so I really didn't want a place just to, to put you know, my cars. I don't have a car collection. But what I did discover is after I sold. I've been in commercial property development for about 25 years and one of the properties that I developed was a self-storage facility.
Speaker 1:Also big nowadays?
Speaker 2:Yeah, very much so, and I had my primary office for real estate and then also in the medical device business inside of this self-storage facility. Well, when I sold it a couple of years ago, I moved my office over to another building that I'd built. That was an 18,000-square-foot building with 10 units that were all 30 feet wide by 50 feet deep, and it's called Flex Business Suites and it's off of Barley School Road as well, and basically it's like a barn dominium. I have my office up on the upstairs mezzanine, my office manager is downstairs and then we have a lot of this open space.
Speaker 2:What I started seeing is that that we use that open space for so many things. If my wife was doing something in landscaping or what have you, she would come up there and lay things out. If my younger son wanted to work on his truck and it's pouring down rain, there's no room in our garage, so he'd go up to Flex Business Suites and work on his truck up there. That is my getaway place, you know as well, and if I have a certain hobby I want to work on, or whatever, that's where I go. I also keep my exercise equipment there, because I've found that I work out better and more often if I do it.
Speaker 2:If you just leave the house, if I just leave the house, and so the idea started coming together when I was looking at the barn dominiums and I was looking at the storage industry and then I was in this space is that everybody would love to have some extra space, whether or not just a store stuff to get out of your garage, get it out of your basement, or people that have decided their kids are gone now and the wife used to be into pottery or the husband used to be into pottery, you know what? They're going to put a pottery studio in there. Somebody else is into music. These units are going to be incredible when it comes down to the acoustics. So if somebody wants to put in a music studio, they could certainly do that.
Speaker 2:So the bottom line of what comes down to the entertainment, it's whatever entertains you Not entertaining other people, but what drives you, what captures you? You, what captures you? And the people that we see that are interested in buying these things or that have already made reservations, generally are people that have done very well. They've worked extremely hard, they put their kids through school and now they're looking at investing a little bit in themselves, and so it may be that individual that wants that car collection or has that rb, now rv that he wants to put in there. But we're seeing a lot more of yeah, we're going to put that there, but my wife is also going to do this, or I'm also going to put my office in there, and I found out that I'm more productive by not being at home and working, so I still want to get out and about. So we're seeing a lot of that when we talk to people.
Speaker 1:As far as what they're planning on doing on the inside of these units. So we haven't mentioned kind of where it is, just a real high level of where it is. And it sounds like the genesis of the concept came from this flex space, almost like you didn't even think about it. But you started using this space in a way and you're like, wow, this, okay, it kind of matches this barn dominium, uh concept as I have seen octane park it's. It's different because, like to your point, it's not as big. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not as big and, uh, it's a little bit more um they're freestanding.
Speaker 3:It kind of feels like a high-end community instead of this storage. You know, just yeah, you're exactly right. Run of doors down a 500-foot-long building, right, that's attractive.
Speaker 1:It's attractive. It's not as commercial-looking and I know some of the barn dominiums look like homes. I get that, sure, but it's more kind of yeah.
Speaker 2:But no, thank you. You're exactly right and those were the points that I was trying to capture throughout the design process of all of this. When I looked at the car clubs that are out there again, all these things kind of look like fancy mini storages type things, and I didn't want it to be that. And also, from a real estate standpoint, I don't like things that are joined together. I never have.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 2:And so I wanted to build these individually, make them completely separate from the other structure. And so these people own all four walls, they own the property that it sits on, more like a home rather than an apartment or a mini storage that type of thing, and I also think that the appreciation is going to be based off of that as well. And so I found the and I realize I'm kind of skipping around a little bit, no, that's good, but I had been looking for a project to do after I sold the storage facility, and again, that's what made me move into Flex Business Suites and I started thinking about the concept, came up with some designs and found the property at Morrison Plantation that I wanted to utilize. And I took that and went to the town of Mooresville and talked to one of the town planners and at that time oh yeah, because zoning might be interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it could be very interesting.
Speaker 1:Especially self-standing and not like a commercial building.
Speaker 2:Right, okay, the whole thing was completely different than the norm. You know, are people going to live in these things? Are they not going to live in these things? What are they going to do? There's some major.
Speaker 1:There's education that it goes into.
Speaker 2:There are a lot of everything. Also, having humans and cars in the same room is not something that you see a lot, nor is it allowed a lot, uh a lot, nor is allowed a lot a lot. So, uh, I went and talked to one of the town planners and, uh, he had explained to me that, with a new ordinance that was just um, uh passed by the town of morsel, they put in a new category called automotive country clubs, and it was primarily meant for, uh, auto clubs and uh they, it had to be on five acres or more and had all of these caveats to it about.
Speaker 2:You know, you had to be able to beautify it in certain ways and you could only enter it from the inside, it had to be gated and these types of things. But he said you know, ernest, I think this would accomplish what you're trying to do. And so I read through all of that and I was thinking that this was going to be a six-month process. You know, go through, get rezoning Well, over two years later. You know, we broke ground a couple of months ago and so it took a long time to get through it. And then, also, being one of the first on the block, especially with the town of Mooresville, there were some things that they weren't completely sure about at the time. So a lot of things had to be defined as we're going along. But we worked through it and I'm extremely happy about the way that it is turning out. The property also is extremely unique. Some of the when we were talking about the car clubs in the past, so many of these are located in the back of industrial parks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that's where they force them.
Speaker 2:you know, because they treat them like you know, this warehouse space and a lot of times, because the buildings look like that, they look like huge warehouses and they're all divided up on the inside by interior walls of being able to do what we did at Morrison Plantation was because of the design to make them individually, to have them built completely out of concrete, to have the black metal roof on the top. All of these designs went into it to make it look like a neighborhood.
Speaker 2:There's a fair amount of glass in them too right, a lot of glass. 25 windows.
Speaker 3:And unique windows, and glass too. It's more than just a window.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 3:Different story for a different day, but it's really well done.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you, it's very modern looking in a way, and very simplistic, very modern, and you have concrete and black windows with gray tint and the black metal roof. It just all it really does pop and it really looks nice. But I'm also I don't want to get off too much on the construction, but but I'm so pleased with the way these things are coming out, with the type of construction that we're using, with the concrete walls, and how efficient these, these structures are going to be and low maintenance it's. It's really over the top and so we're very happy with that.
Speaker 1:So I had a question, which you've already touched a lot on, and that was how are these different than, say, a competitive? You've mentioned car clubs, a lot and more of a commercial type building, but there are, I guess, more of the barn dominium types. They do look like homes but are literally just garages, or they're freestanding but they're bigger. So I guess you've mentioned that too. Is that these kind of give us an idea of what's the size of these units, how many are there in this space and that sort of thing?
Speaker 2:Right. The facility is going to be made up of 44 units all individual structures, and they're 2,250 square feet each, oh, okay. So what that allows you to do is to, without showing you a picture is you have a large garage door on the, let's just say, on the left-hand side. It's 14 feet tall and 12 feet wide, so that'll take a full-size Class, a large motorhome that you're used to seeing A lot of the race car drivers have and that type of thing.
Speaker 2:And then in the middle you have a man door for entry and then on the right-hand side you have a standard garage door that's eight feet tall, so it allows you to, and the 20-foot sailings throughout this whole thing, so you really do have these soaring sailings. So on your left side you either put your boat, your RV or whatever else that you have as tall on that side, or for the car collectors they're going to do two double stacks, so you put one stack in front of another and you put three cars on each stack and then have the lower garage for another two or three cars over on that side as well. But then what makes them very unique and very different on the construction is everything really is over the top, and what I mean by that is when you open the front door. The front door is over four inches thick and it's a security door. It looks like a bank vault.
Speaker 2:And with all the locks running up and down.
Speaker 1:Have you seen this, Zach?
Speaker 3:No, we've been in one Okay.
Speaker 2:Now you may get into the building, but it's probably not going to be through that door. You'll probably break out the glass on the glass garage door before you're going to go through that. But on the outside the garage doors are also all frameless glass, so all you see is this kind of black glass that comes down on both sides and then the black security door in the center that comes down on both sides, and then the black security door in the center.
Speaker 2:When you open up the door and go through, you're greeted by a set of all glass rail staircase that leads up to a balcony, and the entire 50 foot balcony is all glass rail balcony across the top, and so these are things that just they really stand out, but they're, they're just great quality. All of the windows are uh uh commercial, uh quality, or they I should say they are commercial. Uh, they're uh argon filled, low e you know all those types of things.
Speaker 2:And, uh, we utilized open cell spray foam on the ceiling, so the efficiency of these things is, just again, extremely, extremely efficient, um, and very low maintenance. We utilize hardy board. There's no wood in any of these things across the top it's all pre-colored so you never have to paint them, that type of thing. And then the metal roof obviously is known to last 30 plus years throughout.
Speaker 1:Now correct me if I'm wrong. You guys made the decision to not finish them on the inside, Is that? Right, that's correct, and did that come from sort of your due diligence, your research, from what your demographic was going to be, that it was going to be so diverse that you could have a car person or a pottery person, woodworker, metal worker, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:That's absolutely correct, they were driving me crazy.
Speaker 2:Every time I'd ask someone what would you like in one of these, I got different answers across the board. Well, first to answers across the board. Well, first to drywall the entire inside is less than $10,000. So it was not about the money, because what I had to do to be able to leave the walls open, uh was I had to put a fire barrier up on the spray foam, so that was another like $3,000 to uh, do the electrical and leave the walls open.
Speaker 2:Everything has to be run in metal conduit. So my expenses for being able to leave the walls open, everything has to be run in metal conduit. So my expenses for being able to leave the walls open were about the same amount as it would cost to close them in. But everybody I've talked to, they wanted different things. Like you said, whether it's a pottery studio or music studio, or their cars, their lifts or what have you, everything was different. Once I'm out of there, it's very easy for them to go in and run their electrical or run their plumbing or whatever, and the buildings are set up and structured that you can put whatever you want wherever you want it. So if you want a bathroom upstairs, we have a sewer line that's in the wall that you can tap into in any area throughout the whole thing.
Speaker 2:So it's really just to give them the option of doing whatever they want to do.
Speaker 1:Because it's so diverse is there when you leave as a developer. A lot of times, with these neighborhoods, you're going to have some kind of HOA or POA or something, and I would think that this would be almost a good place to use this. I know it doesn't always have the best no, you're correct the best history, but is that something that the owner's going to?
Speaker 2:have their control essentially, after you you're done Absolutely, and this is not a for-profit. And I just wanted to bring that up because a lot of people wonder wait a minute, are you going to try to make money off of managing this thing by charging these outrageous amounts of monies? We've had people email us and say I've heard that it's going to cost over $1,000 a month for HOA.
Speaker 2:Well, that's probably a builder that builds part of the mediums that are telling them that, because our plans right now is we expect it to be about $150 per unit per month. Oh, that's very reasonable, but it really comes down to whatever it is it is. You know we're not making money. We're going to turn it over to a third party unless the owners want to manage it themselves. They're more than welcome to do that as well. So it's really completely up to the owners. But the HOA is extremely important because if you own real estate around any other you know houses, buildings, buildings or what have you you want some rules in place to make sure that that that real estate is it's managed properly and people don't park cars outside or or the trash or or what have you. And anytime you have people, you're going to have people that want to break the rules. So you need to have rules put in place yeah, full-time business.
Speaker 3:I mean you don't want somebody running up you job shop out of Octane Park, right Bingo.
Speaker 1:Isn't that what you said?
Speaker 3:I was going to buy one and do a break job shop. Well, there you go, perfect as that Octane.
Speaker 1:Park coin. Tell this, that's not true.
Speaker 2:But no, it's extremely important for people to know that, yes, it is going to be managed. It's going to be managed by the owners of the property, and then we also take care of all the landscaping. So none of that. So, basically, you have your unit, you're not having to worry about the yards and all that I mean. That's going to be taken care of by the HOA.
Speaker 1:That's cool. Now, with everything you've talked about, one of the reasons that you're in here with us is that we provide the technology and we're fortunate enough to do a partnership with you guys. I'm going to assume that some questions have come up around, whether it's security camera systems, networks, audio video, all kinds of stuff. Does that come up too?
Speaker 2:Absolutely the owners or the people that have reserved units. They're all looking to move into that next stage of now. I want to start planning what I want to do and we're holding them off a little bit because first we can't change anything until we actually get a certificate of occupancy on the unit. Um, and if we start changing anything electrically or what have you, that goes away, and then it has to get approved and you start doing that on 44 units.
Speaker 2:It would take forever so that's interesting okay, so the idea is leaving the walls open, we sell you the unit and then, because the walls are there, you could very easily do what you want to do and also be able to apply some of the technologies that your company provides, and you can do some outstanding lighting. You know these days oh goodness Just slick yes, you can Slick as you can think of, and little things like right now. Actually, we do have LED lights on the stairs, so as you go up to them, the lights are on there on the stairs.
Speaker 2:So we already have a couple of cool things, but you guys can do so much more. And, as I mentioned before, you have 2 1⁄2 inches of concrete on the outside, you have 2 1⁄2 inches of a very dense foam the way these walls actually come constructed. Then on the outside, if you put acoustic panels on the outside of that, you can literally have an incredible sound. And so I'm imagining that other people are going to be talking to you about some incredible sound systems they want to put into these things as well. Oh, that's very cool. These people again, they've worked hard. Yeah, now this is time to have a little bit of fun, you know, for themselves. And so I mean, I myself would love to have just one hellacious music system inside one of these things, just to be able to sit there, not put on headphones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right to sit in a lounge chair and to listen to it the way I used to, you know, as a kid, but a lot better.
Speaker 1:But a lot better.
Speaker 2:But a lot better. And that's just touching just a few things you know that your company can provide. And then also, these individuals are going to be keeping some extremely expensive items inside these units. Yes, so you will have a lot of people that are going to come to you and say, look, I realize you know we have cameras coming in, cameras going out, but I want my unit secure and how do you want to have it set up to do it? You know glass breakage, you know everything across the board cameras, all the types of things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I, I mean so. I'm super excited about the project. When Sue brought it up to our attention not too long ago, I was like man, I mean just the clientele. I'd be surprised if half of your folks reserving units aren't clients already, which is kind of funny. But I mean it's audio. You're right, it's surveillance, it's security. I mean I see folks doing. It's funny. I never thought about the hobby side of it, which is a great aspect I'm. I'm looking thinking cars, rvs, boats, golf simulators.
Speaker 3:I was just going to ask about golf simulator media rooms upstairs, just a really fun destination space where you could, where you could have a heck of a party if you wanted to as well. You know we'll be leaning into those types of folks that are, we're certain, are going to want not only that technology lighting control want not only that technology lighting control, shading audio video but also the ability to have control over that while they're not there right To be able to remotely log in. Hey, I've got somebody that's going to come work on my boat, but I'm in Key West for a month. How am I going to let this person in? How do I make sure that they're doing?
Speaker 3:what they're supposed to do. So the ability to kind of be there without being there, I think is going to be something that's valuable to a lot of folks out there absolutely, and we're hoping that we're setting up part of the technology that we'll be able to integrate with your system very easily.
Speaker 2:Uh, right now we're with our gate opener and as well as uh, our garage door openers are all on the myq system. So all these things, you know, you can control through your phone for sure but so many of these people obviously are looking for the cool stuff you know and this is not a place to um go light on is to have fun with you know 100 and, and and to go a little crazy with.
Speaker 3:If you want to to go crazy, well, it's completely up to you interestingly enough and I you know it's funny mark is like in a car club, so I'm surprised he doesn't have more experience with these types of facilities than he does. But I've been in. I won't name other names but and I won't really call him a competitor because you are creating something that's very unique. I mean you're rewriting the playbook around here.
Speaker 1:As far as what?
Speaker 3:this looks like and I commend you for it because it's great. I think people are going to be following, but I've been in the A, b and C other options. You know I have friends that own them, everything from a shop to keeping cars. I've played poker and a couple poker games in a few of them and I've seen what people have done on the entry-level side to the high-end side.
Speaker 3:But all of that, I think, is just going to be amplified A your location, your visibility. I think people are going to take pride in the fact that these are freestanding and they're just freaking cool. I mean to look at one of these. It's like you're looking at a really cool how. Like I think I was talking to your son one time. He's like, yeah, we're probably going to write in like you can't spend more the next nights in a row and like dang, I would have.
Speaker 1:I would have, I would have just moved in well, yeah, well, I have kind of Moved in. I have almost a selfish question but are you finding folks are downsizing, like maybe they? You were talking about how you had bought a condominium. You went from a house to a condo down in Charlotte where maybe they're downsizing from their big home? Kids have gone to school, whatever, but now they still want the garage, they still want the space for the toys, but but they're going to go to a 55 and over community or they're going to go to a condo or they're going to go. Is that? Are you seeing that?
Speaker 2:not really that hadn't been our clientele so far, but now again we hadn't been. You know, we just started construction, you know, a couple months ago. So I'm sure, we're going to run into more and more different scenarios, but primarily, what we're seeing are people from the point or other areas, people that you know. Again, quite frankly, they've worked hard they have a lot of self, excuse me.
Speaker 1:Disposable income. Thank you, disposable income.
Speaker 2:And so, but those people also, they already have their garages filled up, like our garage is filled up right now with with three cars. Okay, I have more than three cars don't ask me why. There's no real reason. I know when am. I can't get it expected now because the engine light's on, but he goes on and on. But we all have those you things and if you think about it.
Speaker 2:it's all about can I afford a cool place to move some of these things you know into, and so that's really what we're seeing a lot more of than than than anything else. Okay, not really the people that are that are downsizing trying to do that, but you brought up the location and I did want to go back on that just for a second, because the a lot of these, as you said, are in the back of some of the industrial parks, and being inside a morrison plantation is what I really think sets it apart. Forget the design and everything else. Being in that location allows people to have people over and then walk over to a brewery or the butcher shop or walk over or the butcher shop or all of those things Exactly.
Speaker 2:And so that just changes the world. You know you can't do that in the back of an industrial, and they're also, I know. Quite frankly I don't know if my wife would feel comfortable in some of the industrial parts that some of these things are in.
Speaker 1:That's a good point.
Speaker 2:And so, but there's nobody. I don't think that's going to not be comfortable in Morrison.
Speaker 1:Pantation, especially where it is.
Speaker 2:So from that standpoint that's just pure dumb luck or whatever. Maybe I did have something as far as visualizing it, but it was a great find for that property and I think the location is going to be just a super highlight.
Speaker 3:So where are you on your 44, or can you speak to how many reservations have been made so far and what that process looks like?
Speaker 2:We have currently probably about 15 in the 15 neighborhood and that can be a moving target a little bit, because we'll have people that will make reservations and then some that will back out and then some that come back on that type of thing. But I'd say right now, probably about 15 out of the 44 that are spoken for. Yep, and but that changes pretty much every week and that's been without any advertising, except for just the site advertising and the one banner that's hanging down at the growing market.
Speaker 1:that keeps that. The wind keeps knocking over the crane.
Speaker 2:I was going to go ahead and say that, but anyway.
Speaker 3:I told your son. I was like, hey, I'll go over there and tie two bricks on the bottom of that, Keep it from flying over Well, you see, we tried that.
Speaker 2:The problem was it tore it more when we put the bricks on it yeah, yeah, but no, I am an unconventional advertising individual.
Speaker 3:I like it.
Speaker 2:Because I own the property obviously up there.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And then the other building I was telling you about, the Flex Business Suites. That's behind the Brawley Market Car Wash and also Boater's Warehouse, and so that's my building mark's there every day.
Speaker 3:Oh, are you really?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, dave and I are good friends and, uh, as a matter of fact, we had him on the podcast. Yeah, the bralette market, and one of your, dan seguin, is one of your uh, renters. Right behind there he's the snap-on guy oh yeah, sure, sure yeah dan. Uh yeah, the sequins, their sons played soccer for me, so okay, very good but yeah, I mean, even there there's a diverse group of people.
Speaker 2:You know some people in there for fun, like I got one guy that keeps vets next door, you know oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, you know, and then you have another whole set of cars in the front, two units up there but then you have snap-on tools, and then you have, uh, you know, boat mechanics, uh oh, that's cool and all that type of thing artist.
Speaker 3:What a quick question. Um, are you like CO-ing the whole property at one time, or are these per unit finishes? I mean, I would assume you're going to do it all. Oh, that's a great question. No, it's a very good question, phased identically.
Speaker 2:No, very good question. We actually pulled a permit for all 44 units, which I was maybe a little bit surprised. Maybe you should take that out.
Speaker 1:I got you. Take out the 44 unit permit.
Speaker 2:Well, no, no, not that I was surprised that we got one permit, but anyway. But no, they did issue one permit for all 44.
Speaker 2:I asked for a permit for all 44. The plans are obviously to go in and build all of them all at once. That's great. We're starting on the front side, just because that's kind of the way everything's working down, and then we'll do both sides of that road and then we're going to flip over and go to the back side. Um, the only difficult part of that to answer that question is that we'll have some of the units finished up beforehand, but many times the town will not allow you to get a CO until you finish the entire facility, all right. So sometimes they allow developers, however, to put up a bond. So they want to know that, okay, you're going to finish the landscaping and the fencing and all the other things that come along with the facility. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to place a bond and then be able to go ahead and start selling some of these off because, a lot of people would like to do more up fits and that type of thing.
Speaker 2:So while the construction is finishing up on the back side of the property, they would like to be able to go ahead and get in there, right?
Speaker 1:and do some of these up, not to mention some carry costs that would be nice to absolutely so that's very different than a traditional residential neighborhood where clearly you have people moving in all the time when the when the neighborhood's not finished. In this case you, the town wants you to finish the whole thing before anyone moves in.
Speaker 2:In an ideal sense, yeah they would like for us to gotcha correct and a lot of times, of course, in residential depending. People will build in phases and that type of thing as well. Uh, our, our hope is, and our belief is, is that we'll go ahead and complete all 44.
Speaker 1:Yeah so I know we're running a little long, but that's this has been really good. One question we haven't asked is what? Do you have an eta? I mean, I know you can't you're not in a point where weather doesn't affect you, but but, assuming that weather's not Too much of an effect, as a hurricane approaches.
Speaker 3:Yeah thanks Actually.
Speaker 2:Thanks for reminding me of that Inside these four walls. I'd kind of forgotten about those problems out there. But no, the first quarter of next year.
Speaker 1:Wow yeah.
Speaker 2:So I mean we're moving along pretty quickly.
Speaker 1:That's a very quick turn, that's impressive.
Speaker 2:So now, the way these things are built I mean again, they're little fortresses, but we put down the building pads and we do all the rough plumbing electrical and that type of thing in the slab and then they come in to lay the first layer of these panels.
Speaker 2:Each one of these panels a 10 by 10 panel would weigh 3,700 pounds, okay, and so you can imagine what the weight of the entire structure is. But they put in the first layer of walls, and these are again the concrete. Then you have the insulation and then you have the rebar that runs throughout all the concrete. And then we come back and we pour the pad, we put in a solid beam that runs through the center of the unit, we put in the floor joists and then the second layer comes back, and that's when you're going to start seeing people ride by and slow down a lot oh gotcha, because they really get tall, and so the second layer will go up. Then the roof goes on and then the black metal roof goes on top of that and that's when the windows start coming in and it just really starts to pop at that point in time.
Speaker 3:Well, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't spend 45 seconds. You can time me after learning all of this fantastic stuff about Octane Park, which I just think is killer for the community. I've lived here my whole life, so I think it's awesome. We are partnered up with the folks at Octane Park here at Sound Vision, so anybody all of our three listeners listening if one of you is going to buy an, Octane Park unit from the technology standpoint.
Speaker 3:as Ernest pointed out, they're finishing these out unfinished, so I think it's cool that you give your clients or the buyers the opportunity to use whoever you want. Absolutely there's nothing stating any of that right.
Speaker 2:And that gentleman that I showed the unit to yesterday.
Speaker 3:if you're listening, this is the group that can put in the blinds that you want, and so that's where I was, that's where I'm going, like I mean, we sound vision a or geographically poised to be the perfect partner from a service standpoint. We're three miles from the facility, great working relationship. But all things technology, it's not audio, it's not just video, it's security, it's surveillance, it's it's shading, it's lighting, it's control. I mean it's security, it's surveillance, it's shading, it's lighting.
Speaker 1:It's control.
Speaker 3:I mean it's everything that we do. I would employ anyone to visit us at our Experience Center here in Mooresville to kind of see and take a smell test for everything that we do. But we're excited about it. I think it's going to be an absolute home run. I mean, I would like to maybe reserve one myself.
Speaker 1:I know you've been talking about it.
Speaker 3:I've been talking about it for a while. I'm still thinking.
Speaker 2:And let me just tell you as well, because, as you guys have found out, we don't partner and we're not telling people that we're associated with that many people.
Speaker 1:Because we're very choosy about that.
Speaker 2:You guys run an extremely professional operation and with the clientele that we're working with. That's what we want. We don't want to recommend somebody and then have them come back to us and say, oh my God, it was a nightmare, it's the last thing we want to work. So, anyone that we do partner with, anyone that we do recommend, obviously we have a high degree of thought behind it, knowing that they'll be able to communicate well with the group oh, we appreciate that, so we really do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it means a lot to us and and we're very thankful and, uh and, as zach said, appreciative for the opportunity. Before we get out of here, we have a couple fun questions. Yes, andrew, yes, we do, andrew, wake up. So we'd like to ask all of our guests to gauge their personality a little bit. Who is your favorite band or artist? What's your jam?
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:God, this is a good one we get answers all over the place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I started thinking about some of my favorite songs first, really than a band and, like, one of my favorite songs has always been the star spangled banner banner by whitney houston. Oh wow, my wife is.
Speaker 1:My wife just fell in love with you oh my gosh, yes, I love this. That is her favorite. If you asked her what her favorite uh, you know, um, what's it called the performance would be, that's it. Yeah, it means it brings you know what's it called the performance would be.
Speaker 2:That's it. It brings, you know, cold chills to me every time that I hear the song and it's just phenomenal and she was a phenomenal singer and but you know, as far as you know, favorite band I you know I like country music.
Speaker 1:I like pop.
Speaker 2:It's, you know, kind of kind of all over the place. And then, of course, we have to listen to music on the lake with all the boats to come by playing all the music, but no so so I'll be on the countryside. Are you a george jones country? Are you like a zach bryan country, or all probably more? Of a zach brown you know but but you could kind of say across the board and again you could play one of the songs and I wouldn't be able to tell you which one was which okay but I would tell you I do like that song but but I don't know I
Speaker 3:don't know what it is well, at almost 50 I've got kids that range from 11 to 22, so I've got oh wow, I have to listen to all of it too. There's a lot do.
Speaker 1:Do you have? Are you a reader? Do you have any, any book um?
Speaker 2:recommendations. You know, when we were talking about that, uh, earlier, um, that you're an avid reader and I wish I was. Unfortunately, as I was growing up, I was dyslexic, or I am dyslexic, oh wow. So I had to go to classes when I was very young and do eye procedures, but but back when I was growing up, dyslexia was not something that we had a lot of science behind, how to share with it and that type of thing. So unfortunately, I was never an avid reader because it was just too hard and it was too slow.
Speaker 2:We laugh now because my wife will read a novel, you know, in a weekend that would, oh my God, I mean, that would be like hell to me. I'm with you that. And she also enjoys, you know, puzzles.
Speaker 3:Okay, and she'll put together a puzzle.
Speaker 2:Oh my Lord, it would take me three years to put some of these things together, and I probably wouldn't be able to get them put together.
Speaker 1:I agree, I sit down, and I literally sit down and just get mad.
Speaker 3:She's like will you just?
Speaker 1:sit with me for a while. I'm like where does this go?
Speaker 2:But it's actually. But, like most other things, it's been a huge blessing to my life and what I didn't realize, obviously, when I was young and struggled through school and that type of thing. But I started my career in the medical device business and so much of medical journalism or papers and that type of thing are generally like 8, 10, 12 pages, that type of thing, and you read through these journals and learn about different drugs or the devices. What have you? The beauty about my problem was that I have a memory that once I read it, it's there.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, that's cool and so I was able to go in and quote papers and that type of thing that I had read three years prior, and be able to quote an article. And so you know, I tell that especially to kids today, especially the guys that are struggling or girls that are struggling, and just say, look, just take whatever that is and turn it to your favor and say look, just take whatever that is, and turn it to your favor, and because if it was not for that, I never would have been nearly successful.
Speaker 2:Isn't that incredible, yeah, so again. So I feel everything like that is a blessing.
Speaker 3:We didn't treat it that way. That's so cool. I didn't coin it, so I can't take credit for it, but I use the term in my house all the time. When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and leave everybody wondering how in the hell you did it.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 1:I hadn't heard that one. That's our mantra at home. Yeah Well, we're going to put it in the show notes. But we, we may have clients uh, some of our clients that have already purchased or at least uh, signed, uh signed agreements with you. But for those that have not, there's going to be a lot of our clients that are going to be very interested. So tell everyone how do they get in touch with you? How do they find you? Who do they talk to?
Speaker 2:Whatever you want to say, Sure, easiest thing to do is go to octaneparkscom with an S octaneparkscom and that has the information there that you can get in touch with us through email, just by contact, or by going in and signing up for a reservation.
Speaker 2:But we'll immediately get back in touch with you within 24 hours, if not a lot sooner than that, and we'll be glad to provide you the layout of the units themselves, the layout of the facility, and then answer any questions. We're also fortunate right now to have an off-site model, which is my personal unit, and so we can take people through that unit so they can physically see exactly what they're going to be getting, and we left the walls open there, so what you see in that model is not anything fancy or over the top. It's exactly what you're going to be getting. But that is a lot, and once you walk in and you see the smiles on people's faces, that makes me feel very good that I think we've we've provided something that people are really going to think is really cool and enjoy working with.
Speaker 3:Oh, it totally is. Yeah, it's very cool. We thought the same thing when we walked in.
Speaker 2:I was like, yeah, this it's special so we're glad to be involved with it well, I was happy when a plumber came walking in, he looked up and I just loved it. He looked up, he looked around, he said you know, I only have one word, so what's that? He said sexy well, I gotta tell you yeah, this is.
Speaker 1:I am stoked. This has been a great podcast. I think the folks that listen to it are going to be very interested in the product and just everything you're doing it is. If you haven't seen it, take a ride down Morrison Plantation You'll see where construction has started and then reach out to these guys and take Ernest up on his offer to go by and see his unit, because they are really really cool, really cool.
Speaker 2:So thank you very much. It's been my absolute pleasure.
Speaker 3:Thank you very much for having me. Thanks for coming in.
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