Developer plans to turn former Auburn Denny’s into car wash | Business

On Tuesday, July 5, the Auburn Setting up Board will evaluate a internet site approach application by New Potato Creek Keeping, of Farmingdale, to produce the property at 176 Grant Ave. into a Tidal Wave Car Spa. 

In accordance to a letter of intent submitted by designer Bohler Engineering on New Potato Creek’s behalf, the automobile clean would employ about 15 men and women, with two to 3 on internet site at all occasions. It would be open up 7 times a week, generally 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., but would potentially close earlier in the winter. Prospects would be capable to pay out as they go or obtain memberships for limitless use, and vacuums would be readily available to shelling out shoppers. Vacuums would be turned off when the car wash closes, and there would be no immediately after-hrs functions. Electric power devices would be enclosed to lower the sounds it will make.

The 3,620-sq.-foot facility would have 25 parking areas, 20 for vacuums, and a person of the spaces would be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the course of redevelopment, the property’s latest southern suppress reduce would be taken off and the northern one would be moved a bit. New pole-mounted LED lights would illuminate the web page, and new trees and shrubs would be planted.

Dependent in Thomaston, Ga, the Tidal Wave Vehicle Spa chain has grown into about 100 locations, most of them in the southeastern U.S., because opening its very first in 2004. The chain’s signature design is the express wash. Tidal Wave at the moment has no destinations in New York, but in accordance to its web page, it is also opening a location in South Glens Falls as it expands into the Northeast and Midwest. 

If the arranging board approves the application, the motor vehicle wash would be a part of Automobile Wash and K&S Motor vehicle Clean on Grant Avenue. 

The Auburn Denny’s closed due to “unforeseeable small business circumstances prompted by COVID-19,” operator Feast American Diners explained in a filing with the state Division of Labor in May possibly 2020, two months right after the pandemic commenced in the U.S. The diner-fashion chain, open up 24/7, shut locations in the areas of Syracuse, Rochester, Watertown and the Southern Tier at that time for the similar rationale.