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A new drive-thru car wash is coming to El Paso’s East Side.
Mister Car Wash was founded in 1969 in Houston, Texas. In 1998, Car Wash Partners acquired 11 Mister Car Wash locations and moved the company’s headquarters to Tucson, Arizona.
A new Mister Car Wash is coming to Lee Trevino Drive in East El Paso.
By 2012, Mister Car Wash had become the largest car wash company in the United States, with 100 locations in more than 20 states including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Florida.
Where is it?
According to the city’s licenses and permits page, the new Mister’s Car Wash location will be located at 1329 Lee Trevino Drive.
The new car wash is located across the street from a Bank of America location and Firestone Complete Auto Care. The location is right on a street with the Home Depot Garden Center in one direction and the Pho 24 restaurant in the other.
What came before?
The new Mister Car Wash location will be a new construction site on land that is currently vacant.
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Construction will include a new above-ground tunnel car wash.
Who is the contractor?
The contractor for the project is not listed on the city’s website, but the applicant is Kim Olig of Excel Engineering Inc. in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The owner is listed as Scot Properties Ltd. of El Paso.
The project is valued at US$2.5 million.
Adam Powell covers government and politics for The El Paso Times and can be reached at apowell@elpasotimes.com.
This article originally appeared in the El Paso Times: Lee Trevino Drive in East El Paso is getting a new car wash