Self Serve Carwash News Fall '19

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Presenting the news stories featuring
self serve car washes
Twenty-three-year-old buys opens self
serve in New Mexico
Ernesto Rosas just 23 years old, but he already owns a detail shop, and is
now a proud self serve car wash owner. According to krwg, Rosas said he
remembers visiting the car wash with his father when he was 9. ““This has
been my dream to have a self-service and full-service car wash,” he said.
“We’re hoping that people will come out to give us a chance.”
Rosas has been running Neto Boys Mobile Detailing for the past five
years. Recently, the previous owner of the car wash reached out to him,
and Rosas took over the Valley Drive location in September. He added
fresh paint, bright flags and a big new sign. According to the story, he’s
also reduced self-wash prices from $1.50 to $1.
Rosas said in the story, “I want to make improvements to the Valley
Drive self-service location, but I can only do that when traffic increases,
and the business makes more money.”
New self serve in South Dakota will
welcome boats, campers and RVs
Scooptown Car Wash will soon be open in Sturgis, South Dakota, according
to Black Hills Fox Business News. Owners Tylea and Chris Bergman are
transforming a 4,000-square-foot lot that will feature two automatic bays,
three self-serve bays, an oversized bay for campers, boats, and RVs, and even
a pet wash.
“There’s a lot of research going into equipment. There’s a lot of equipment
companies out there. We’ve done our research, traveled around., toured a lot
of plants,” Chris said in the story.
“It’s right off the exit so it’s convenient for them to pull off and get a quick
carwash and like you said now that there’s going to be the dump station here
when it’s during the summertime and they need to swing in. Now there’s a
convenient place for them for their RVs to get that done,” Tylea added.
Scooptown Car Wash is slated to be up and running by December 2019.
Alaskan self serve chain has been in
business for 50 years+
For the past 50-plus years the Boyd family has been washing cars in Anchorage,
Alaska. Today, Brian Boyd is managing both the Magic Wand self serve
car washes and the Rainmaker touches car wash chain. Brian told KTUU, “It’s
over 50 years of family business at this point, my grandfather, he built the first
one and then my dad ended up running that and grew it to three self serves
and then he added these automatics and here I am I run it with my wife and
got my kids handprints in the concrete so it’s definitely a family business.”
Brian joked that when he was a kid and was working at the self serve, he
kept imagining things like automatic doors and cameras coming into play.
Little did he know that both of those visions would become a reality.
Crediting the women in his life, Brian said in the story, “Boy, having my brilliant
wife on board sure makes a difference and no I really wouldn’t be doing
this without her so yeah it’s pretty important.”
Proposed property tax increase would impact California car washes
A union-backed initiative that looks to impose
higher property taxes on commercial and industrial
property started gathering support via signatures
on October 27 in downtown Los Angeles,
nbclosangeles reported.
According to the nbc report, under terms of
Proposition 13 (the landmark property tax reduction
and limitation measure approved by voters on
June 6, 1978) increases of assessed value of real
property are restricted to 2% per year except if it
is sold or there is construction.
“The measure would mainly apply to large and
older businesses, as it exempts owners of commercial
and industrial properties with combined value
of $3 million or less,” the story stated. “There are
also exemptions for all residential and agricultural
property. The initiative also exempts from taxation
$500,000 of combined tangible personal property
and fixtures from small businesses.”
The proposed initiative would not alter the
1% tax limit of a property’s full cash value under
Proposition 13.
If approved, there would be net increase in annual
property tax revenues from $7.5 billion to $12 billion.
Money garnered through this initiative would
be allocated to schools and local governments.
Susan Shelley, vice president, communications
of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, spoke
out against the initiative, stating, “The split-roll initiative
would be a huge tax increase on every business
in California, simultaneously and repeatedly.
Taxes would rise almost immediately for every
shopping mall, hotel, restaurant, office building,
factory, warehouse, self-storage facility, car wash,
parking structure, movie theater, sports stadium
and supermarket. …Prices would rise to reflect the
higher costs. Even the smallest businesses would
be hurt as landlords passed the cost of higher taxes
through to their tenants.”
56 • FALL 2019