High-Tech Car Wash Coming To Easton Road In Warrington

WARRINGTON, PA — A new state-of-the-art high-tech car wash is coming to Warrington.

At its June meeting, the township’s board of supervisors gave Flagship Car Wash preliminary/final plan approval to build a car wash on Easton Road between Dubree and Bristol roads.

Plans call for the redevelopment of the closed Rock Star car wash and the property next door, now used by a well-drilling contractor at the corner of Dubree and Easton roads.

The buildings on both properties - the former car wash and several buildings on the well driller’s property, including a dilapidated house - will be demolished to make way for the new car wash.

The new “modern, state-of-the-art” drive-through car wash will be “more aesthetically pleasing” than what is on the site now, said land use attorney Julie Von Sprecklesen.

Civil engineer Ryan Whitlock said plans to redevelop the 2.4-acre site will dramatically improve the site, which he said contains buildings that are blighted, functionally outdated, obsolete, and in need of redevelopment.

Following a consolidation of both lots, Whitlock said all the existing buildings would be fully demolished, including the former car wash, the offices of the well drilling, and a dilapidated single-family home on the well-drilling company property.

According to Whitlock, the property will be redeveloped with a modernized car wash “that’s more efficient and better looking” with a lot of benefits for the community - pedestrian improvements, streetscapes, buffering, and the modernization of stormwater management “and all the other incidentals that come along with taking an existing car wash built years ago and bringing it into industry standards.”

Two new buildings will be built at the site - a 5,067 square foot wet belt building and a 6,988 square foot dry belt building.

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All cars entering the site will drive through the wet belt where the car is washed. Vehicle owners then have a choice of taking their car through the dry belt for an interior cleaning, to an outside bank of 21 free self-service vacuum stalls or to leave the site via Bristol, Easton or DuBree roads.

Customers will enter the site at a right-in, right-out access point on Easton Road at the furthest point away from the Dubree intersection.

The plan also includes a new cross-access road connecting Dubree to Bristol Road across the back of the car wash property.

Flagship operates more than 50 car washes throughout the Mid-Atlantic, concentrated mostly in the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia area.

They have recently expanded into Pennsylvania with locations in Trappe, North Wales, and West Chester, with a new location under development at 545 West Butler Avenue in New Britain Township.