What began as a small detail shop at Walnut Hills Country Club has grown into two independent car wash and detail locations, including
Evergreen Car Wash and Detail’s new detail shop location on Grand River in East Lansing.
Owners and former MSU basketball players David Thomas & Andre Hutson moved the detail shop from their
original location in Downtown Lansing.
“We mainly did dealership cars downtown,” says Thomas. “It was great for those bigger accounts, but it wasn’t a good place for drive-by traffic.”
Thomas and Hutson hope their new, highly visible location will be the key to expanding their customer base. The 2,100-square foot detail shop will continue to work with their larger dealership clients, but is also open to the public for a variety of interior and exterior auto detailing work.
“It’s been good,” says Thomas of business in the new spot just days after opening last week. “We don’t even have our signs up yet, but we’ve had a couple people stop in on the day we opened.”
Evergreen Car Wash & Detail also includes a 90-foot tunnel car wash on South Pennsylvania. According to Thomas, the future of the growing business could include even more locations.
“We’d like to open up another drive through car wash at some point,” he says. “We believe we provide an excellent service, so we’d like to service more people.”
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