Evergreen Subaru purchases Best Buy building in Auburn for its future home
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Employees of Evergreen Subaru in Auburn took a surprise field trip to the dealership's newly purchased vacant Best Buy Building on Turner Street. The dealership, founded in 2006, plans to convert the building on Turner Street in Auburn nto a “best-in-class” Subaru store.
Evergreen Subaru in Auburn announced Friday it had purchased the currently vacant Best Buy building on Turner Street and plans to convert it into a “best-in-class” Subaru store.
Terms of the acquisition were not immediately available.
“We have definitely outgrown our current space,” said Evergreen Subaru’s managing owner Doug Weisz said in a news release. “And while we had been exploring creative expansion opportunities for our current property, repurposing and building out the empty Best Buy building provides the fastest and least disruptive means of growing our business.”
Evergreen Subaru said it is beginning to work with architects and builders to construct a new home for the dealership. It plans to begin construction in spring 2019 with the hope of moving into the new building in early 2020.
Weisz said the dealership is in the early phases of exploring the possibilities for its present space at 774 Center St.
“Whether we sell, lease or retain our current building for another use, our top priority right now is to focus on making our future dealership home into the best space it can be,” Weisz said. “Our Center street location allows us to make a smooth, seamless transition. We get to buffer our staff and customers from the chaos of a construction site, then pull the wrapper off the new place and move in to a finished building. Once that’s done we can repurpose our Center Street store.”
News of the acquisition and planned move was shared with Evergreen Subaru’s 60 employees last week, who were taken on a surprise field trip in a chartered bus to the Best Buy building for a tour of the future Evergreen Subaru dealership store.
Last week, Evergreen Subaru shared the news with their 60 staff members by closing early and chartering a bus to take them on a surprise “field trip” to the Best Buy building for a tour and celebration of the future of Evergreen Subaru.
Evergreen Subaru in Auburn was founded in 2006.
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