Auction Date and Time:
Friday, July 15th at 1pm
Auction & Property Location:
Lot 4A (126 Hampshire Road)
Salisbury, MD 21801
Modern Self Service Carwash located in high growth retail area with significant traffic flow. Directly across the street from Wal-Mart Sam’s Club and numerous other high traffic retailers. Property is also adjacent to lot for a new proposed hotel and only a few yards from RT 13.
New in 2007, the carwash contains one 80’ automatic conveyer wash bay, one Automatic Laser Bay and four Self-Serve wand-wash bays - one bay is oversized for larger vehicles.
The property site consists of 1.17 +/- acres with an improved total gross building area of 4,322 +/- sf. In addition to the bays, the building area includes an equipment/mechanical room, restroom, small office and vending area. Per plans and specifications, all bay and apron slab floors include a floor heating system. Site also includes asphalt paved parking/driveways, signage, landscaping, six vacuum stations with fragrance dispensers as well as a shampoo vacuum station, automatic pay stations with optional RFI technology for corporate and fleet contracts, exterior pole lighting and surveillance system. Zoning is General Commercial.
25 comments:
It was a great carwash in the beginning but, apparently, the owner ran into financial problems. For what is left working, it's a bargain $5 wash. You can look around though and notice that duct tape is holding nearly everything together. Very modern otherwise.
Note: The former OASIS locations in Fruitland and Ocean City are not operating under different names.
I'm at Sam's a lot and I've never seen a car in there. I didn't think it was ever open.
how modern is it
does it recycle it's water and have solar panels like most new car washes
Better find out how much the city wants for the hook up to the water system. Its a bundle.
"does it recycle it's water and have solar panels like most new car washes"
Uh, why? Why should it? You may have good reasons but some simply want ti understand WHY you insist on this criteria.
Is this the place that ran up a $200,000 water bill and then bulked at paying it? If so, did it ever get paid? Will it get paid?
"Uh,Why?" Because it is good economic and environmental sense.
Recycling water, so that your not washing your car with drinking water saves you water so that your grandchildren will have something to drink. In case you are unaware, the major aquifer that provides much of the drinking water for the Shore is running low and summer before last wells in S. Wicomico, N. Somerset county went dry. The Manokin aquifer is a precious resource. I understand living on the ES and being surrounded by water gives on the false sense of security that we will always have it, but it is simply not true, we must conserve water. And regarding solar power, the new tech. for solar energy is so powerful now a business would never have to have another electric bill again if they would make the initial investment.
The water bill was not paid. The city has a judgement against them for $145,000. Apparently is was adjusted down a bit.
I am not sure why they have not turned the water off again. It will most likely never be paid.
If I hear one more environmentalist wacko like 8:00pm say that we are wasting water, I am going to scream. Any Dummy can think past their nose and realize water is recycled anyway. It either goes into the ground back to the aquafer or evaporates and comes back as rain. Other than that, where in the hell does water go. Now you can argue that the energy to pump the water is lost but even then energy is not created or destroyed, it just changes form. So global warming,fresh water alarmist just go for a ride in your gay prius
Uh, Why?, Sounded like logical questions to me. You must be the seller, or involved somehow. I do believe that this was the business that owed a ton of money to the city and wanted to work out a deal. I think that John Pick even talked about that they estimated their water usage before the business was opened, and the numbers were based on recycling water. However, the owner didn't implement the recycling efforts, thus causing his costs to be much higher. (pretty sure this is it, it is starting to come back to me)
I have lived here all of my life. If there is one thing I have learned - it is that the area where the car wash is located is sitting right on top of an unlimited supply of well water. The paleo channel runs right through this area and there is a pumping station less than a half a mile on Naylor Mill Road.
Arthur Meilhammer, Kenny Meilhammer, and the entire Meilhammer clan can vouch for everything I'm telling you - (lifelong residents). When I was a teenager - many moons ago - they placed various exploratory wells in the vicinity of Naylor Mill Road. They never could get a handle on the approximation of water - but it was plentiful.
Why they wouldn't let the guy install his own well miffs me. I would fight the City Hall till the cows come home on this location for not having their own wells.
Now I do not know why the guy couldn't make it - but my guess is that he paid to much for the property and improvements.
Remember what Mad Man Jim Cramer said on national TV;
'if you purchased property in 2005 or latter - my advice is to take a walk and let the bank have it back. For those students who won't listen and take my advice - I would flunk them.'
That about sums it up in a nutshell.
The owner tried to be slick and tell the city he was only going to consume 800 or so gallons of water per day, and ended up using over 16000 gallons per day. The city originally estimated 4000 and the owner said that because of the efficient equipment he had it would only be 800 or so. It was his fault that he racked up over 200K in unpaid impact fees.
Even if they allowed them to install a well, they would still have to have a meter put on the sewer, and pay for all the water going into the sewer, because it has to be treated. Usually the sewer side of the rates is higher than the water. I guess he could have saved a quarter off of his bill. Maybe he should have done more homework. Walk away? Yeah, add to the problem because someone made a bad choice. Why is it that the one in Fruitland is making out okay?
He could not make it because he (Neil Hitchcock) is a dope, and does not know what he is doing. Check the MD lien search and see how many folks he has screwed, and owes money to.
Plus--he paid too much for the land and improvements, coupled with a bad location.
Folks, water is not a limited resource.
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To 9:44 Posting
I had heard through the grapevine that anyone who had worked on this facility had a very hard time collecting their money - if at all.
I have seldom seen any vehicles getting washed at this location.
I visit Sam's alot and have often wondered about that car wash.
First - they were out of water - da - how can you get a car washed without water? I believe the guy is probably head over heals in debt as the construction timeline fits where probably bought-in at the top of market - before the collapse. There are foreclosures everywhere. I've never witnessed so many foreclosurers - ever!
Don't blame the city and impact fees on this one.
The guy has a history, a long one.
Much as the city drives me crazy, some businesses go out of business because the owners don't know squat, not enough cushion against a recession, relocation by a mega corp, bad management, you name it. Everyone blames the government. How many business people do you hear say, "Nah, it's because I'm a lousy businessman."
It is a car wash
like a dry cleaners
I know how to wash my car and laundry and Iron my own shirts
the Marine Corps teaches you one valuable thing
How to Iron and wash large vehicles
car washes are a ridiculous business venture
maybe back in the cheap gas days of rednecks in muddy monster trucks and boats carrying on but in the age of the Hybrid car its just stupid....people are getting back to doing for themselves.......going back to clotheslines....so what the PSI of your garden hose takes ten minutes longer........car washes are just big a big trick on lazy folk that like to be seen..............or maybe they are some sort of low down gay hook up like rest and truck stops
who knows?
LOL it is a car wash people
I can't believe anyone is worked up over it or cares
CAR WASH
hose and water you already pay for at home
this is just silly and typical of the mentality and the battles people are willing to be concerned with around here you would think they took the Bidets out of Wal-Mart
oh wrong Wal-Mart doesnt have Bidets
Anon 10:59pm are you kidding me? People are to damned lazy to cut their own grass and you want them to get out and wash their own cars? For heavens sake, don't you know they can't get soapy water on their landscaped yards or driveways? Clotheslines ahahaha that's hilarious. Maybe people living in non communist neighborhoods without HOA's might have a clothesline but you show me one in Nithsdale, West Nithsdale, Harbor Pointe, Sleepy Hollow or any other "Stepford" neighborhood development. People don't even cook otherwise we wouldn't have so many restaurants. People are lazy about doing everyday chores, some don't even clean their own homes they hire Merry Maid or some other cleaning service. You must live out in the county because people in or near Salisbury are not going to do for themselves. They'll cry about the rising cost but won't consider doing the physical work.
This place is in the wrong place to begin with. Second the prices suck for the amount of time you get. By far the best one in Salisbury is the one on Northwood Drive near Pep Boys. 5 bucks for 30 mins...can't beat it at all. I've never used all the time, and that is with taking my time.
Neil Hitchcock? Is he the same guy who has a travel agency in Ocean City/Berlin?
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