ZIPS Car Wash has announced the acquisition of five car wash locations from Lightning McClean Car Wash in Virginia and North Carolina. Los sitios adicionales añadirán comodidad a la gran Lynchburg, Virginia, un mercado donde ZIPS opera actualmente cuatro lugares. Those two factors have helped catapult the industry in unprecedented ways.Con esta adquisición, ZIPS ha entrado en nuevas comunidades a través de esta adquisición. “Also, customers love the subscription-based services. “What’s helping to fuel the industry’s growth is the improvement of the technology in the machines used to clean the car,” he says. Martin started Metro Express in Boise in 2004, grew it to three outlets in Southern Idaho and then sold them to Mister Car Wash in 2013 before launching the latest series of Metro Express facilities.īill Martin, now in his mid-70s, has been in the car wash business for 51 years. In the 1990s, he developed Nu Look Car Wash, in Spokane, which he later sold to Tucson, Arizona-based Mister Car Wash, a national chain that Martin was involved in founding. “We’ve been in the Spokane market off and on, and now seemed like a good time to get back in,” he says. He says the company plans to build other Metro Express car wash stations across Spokane Valley over the next few years. That facility includes a 34,000-square-foot building on 3.5 acres of land, Bill Martin says. The Metro Express on East Sprague will be the fifth Metro Express, with the others located in Meridian, Idaho Missoula, Montana and Sheridan, Colorado, which is south of Denver.Īt the time of its opening in 2015, the Sheridan Metro Express was considered the largest car wash facility in the U.S.
95, about a half-mile north of Interstate 90. Verdis, a Coeur d’Alene-based design and construction company, has served as the project’s civil engineer, Bill Martin says.įive years ago, the Martins opened the Metro Express Car Wash, in Coeur d’Alene, at 3131 Conference Drive, just east of U.S. is the general contractor on the project, and Josh Howa, of Howa Design Inc., of Twin Falls, Idaho, designed it. Hayden-based Young Construction Group of Idaho Inc. His son, Derek Martin, who serves as Metro Express’ chief operating officer, says the company has targeted an opening of March 1 but will try to open before then if the weather allows.Įstimated construction cost is $5.6 million, Derek Martin says. Sprague.Ĭonstruction started in mid-July on the 10,000-square-foot car wash building what will occupy a 1.2-acre parcel of land at the northwest corner of Sprague Avenue and Havana Street, he says. Martin, who’s no stranger to Spokane, currently is developing a Metro Express Car Wash facility at 4201 E. “There’s a rate of growth in the industry that’s never been seen before,” Martin says. Veteran Boise-based car wash owner and operator Bill Martin doesn’t think he’s ever been this busy.
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