J. Warner Ventures, Inc., parent company of Cheetah Clean Auto Wash locations across Kentucky, held a ceremonial groundbreaking on July 19, celebrating the start of construction on its Cave Mill Station Boulevard location in Bowling Green, Ky. They now have locations in Bowling Green, Shepherdsville and Owensboro.
This site will be home to Cheetah Clean Auto Wash’s largest, and most technologically advanced site yet. This state-of-the-art car cleaning facility will be over 10,000 square feet and will boast the longest conveyor system in the Bowling Green market, spanning over 140 feet in length, and will be the largest car cleaning facility within a 200-mile radius. This site also will be home to the first belted conveyor system in Bowling Green-Warren County.
The new site will also offer a second belted conveyor interior cleaning line that will showcase an eight-minute interior detailing option that will include vacuuming, air purging, wet wiping of all hard interior surfaces, and cleaning of the interior windows, which will be performed by Cheetah Clean Technicians. The Cave Mill Station site will include 12 high-suction vacuum stalls at no additional charge and will be fully equipped with all the free amenities for self-cleaning of automobiles. The new corporate headquarters offices will also be on-site, as well as locker and break rooms for Cheetah Clean associates.
“This company milestone is fulfilling a vision that has been in the works for close to 15 years,” said Cheetah Clean Owner, President and CEO Jeff Fields, “This site was inspired by a European car wash tour I went on back in 2016. While overseas I toured one of the largest car washes in the world, Mr. Wash, in Stuttgart, Germany. Our new wash is being modeled after their processes and those of the Loogman Car Wash facilities in Amsterdam. We will focus on cleaning the vehicles’ exterior and interior in the most advanced and efficient processes known to man!”
The Cheetah Clean Auto Wash Cave Mill Station mega site is expected to be completed by the end of 2021 and provide a significant economic boost to Bowling Green-Warren County by creating about 50 $15+ per hour jobs along with millions of dollars of capital reinvestment back into the community.
Fields also highlighted a few longtime Cheetah Clean team members who he said accomplish the job of putting Cheetah Clean customers first every day: Operations—Qendrim Mirena; Accountants—Josh Brown and Leanne Brasel; Sales/Management—Sara Hughes; Maintenance Director—Jordan Walters; and Line Supervisor—Frank Jones.
He gives a special thanks to his parents, Geoff and Mary Alice Fields; project builders, Kelley Construction of Louisville, Ky.; project designers ACES Engineering, Sky Engineering, and Williams Architects, all companies in Bowling Green, Ky.; Scott Bachert from the Law Firm of Kerrick Bachert, PSC of Bowling Green, Ky.; accountants Ann Puckett and Jon Thomason of BKD CPAs and Advisors of Bowling Green, Ky.; and Dan Harbison, Market President of First Bank in Bowling Green, Ky., which is financing the project.
“We are very excited to bring a world-class car wash operation to the city of Bowling Green, Ky.,” said Fields.