I haven’t seen car washes popping up but I am definitely seeing a bunch of golf simulation places popping up. Most have no employees on site…
That makes sense because you can’t have golf course built on permafrost
We’re practically at the same line of latitude, dipshit.
I haven’t seen car washes popping up but I am definitely seeing a bunch of golf simulation places popping up. Most have no employees on site…
That makes sense because you can’t have golf course built on permafrost
We’re practically at the same line of latitude, dipshit.
Sure. But you’re further North.
Interesting. I can understand any market can create opportunity.
We haven’t seen a lot of car washes but we have an absolute metric shitloadnof storage facilities popping up around us now. To the point where we are all getting sick of it.
We are getting a bunch of car washes and storage facilities popping up the past couple of years.
I had an engineer, who was designing one of the car washes, tell me it costs about $5 million to build, including land, and on average, it’s paid off after 7 years.
I haven’t seen car washes popping up but I am definitely seeing a bunch of golf simulation places popping up. Most have no employees on site…
That makes sense because you can’t have golf course built on permafrost
We’re practically at the same line of latitude, dipshit.
Not my fault you live with Polar bears in an igloo
We are getting a bunch of car washes and storage facilities popping up the past couple of years.
I had an engineer, who was designing one of the car washes, tell me it costs about $5 million to build, including land, and on average, it’s paid off after 7 years.
I believe it. One of my patient’s last year told me her husband builds car washes and they own a number of them as well. He travels all over the state building them.
They seem to be doing very, very well for themselves.
I only wash after I have to drive in the snow and get a layer of salt on the car. Which happens maybe once a year. I would wash more, but I always park in a garage so it doesn’t really get dirty.
If I did that I’d be washing the car twice a day.
Minivan gets washed twice a year, spring and fall.
I have noticed this in the last several months, but didn’t know why.
Because car washes and storage facilities make a lot of money and the land basis can be low for a good return.
For historical reference, the Flagship car wash in Ashburn VA that is referenced in the article currently charge $44 for their Premium wash. The unlimited premium wash is $75/mth.
The Ashburn location is the largest (indoor) car wash in the US.
Flagship’s membership doesn’t seem cost-effective to me when I looked at it awhile back. It’s tied to a vehicle, so you can’t use your membership for a second car. And you’d have to wash the particular car weekly to break even for the monthly cost.
I wash our cars in the driveway.
This…
Same here… During spring, summer, fall I like the routine of hand washing* the cars in the driveway. It’s like a bonding moment to clean, dry, admire. During winter, will run them through a touchless wash, or go to a DIY open bay thing where you put tokens in for a set #of minutes and wash it yourself.
** my wife’s car, and my FJ, occasionally get put through the regular car wash machine things. Those cars have enough microscratches and swirls that it doesn’t matter. My PPF cars on the other hand are swirl free and I like to keep them that way. 
Interesting. I can understand any market can create opportunity.
We haven’t seen a lot of car washes but we have an absolute metric shitloadnof storage facilities popping up around us now. To the point where we are all getting sick of it.
What drives my FIL crazy is people in our more rural area who put shipping containers on their property as storage. I was thinking of trolling him by photoshopping one onto our property and sending them an email about our great new shed.
But my wife would never forgive me if he just keeled over in seizure.
I don’t quite get the storage facility thing. Sure, makes sense in some cases. But that common?