Developer with ties to Tesla, which plans to sell electric vehicles, maintenance facility in Liberty Lake
A real estate development company affiliated with Tesla Inc. plans to build an electric car sales and maintenance facility in Liberty Lake.
Denver-based Drake Real Estate Services, which previously worked with Tesla on electric vehicle projects, has submitted plans to the City of Liberty Lake to build a 32,400-square-foot facility that will “sell, service, maintain, charge, store, and ship new and used electric cars ”in 1805 N. Pepper Lane.
A conceptual site plan shows that the facility will also have 185 parking spaces and 25 charging stations for electric vehicles, some of which will face Mission Avenue.
According to an environmental review for the project, the facility could include up to 280 charging, display, parking and storage locations larger than five acres.
No company name was assigned to the Liberty Lake project. However, Drake Real Estate Services filed a preliminary application with the City of Vancouver, Washington, earlier this month for a similarly sized electric vehicle service center that showed project renders to be Tesla vehicles parked in front of The facility were reported by Colombians.
Drake Real Estate Services was also involved in the development of Tesla’s first automotive sales and service facility in Colorado, according to Maxwell Builders, a Colorado-based company that built the facility. Drake Real Estate Services managing partner Jon Hauser declined to comment on additional details for the project, referring to a nondisclosure agreement. Tesla didn’t respond to a request for comment on whether an electric car sales and maintenance facility in Liberty Lake was being considered.
The developers are expected to lay the foundation stone for the electric vehicle system in July. Completion is scheduled for March. After completion of the plant, 50 employees will be employed according to the environmental assessment.
Tesla opened its first service center in Spokane at 3304 E. Springfield Ave last year. The Palo Alto, California-based electric vehicle and clean energy company operates seven stores and service centers across the state.Mein Edelen can be reached at (509) 459-5581 or at [email protected].