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The Pleasanton City Council Tuesday approved plans by Dublin’s Stoneridge Chrysler-Jeep dealership to relocate here and build a 32,000-square-foot showroom and service building on Staples Ranch.
The new dealership will be built on five of the 37-acre auto mall site at the southwest corner of I-580 and El Charro Road, across from Livermore’s Outlet Mall.
CarMax, a national used car dealership, also has approval to build a showroom and sales facility in the auto mall.
Stoneridge Chrysler, which also sell Jeeps and Dodge cars and trucks, is now located at 6701 Amador Plaza Road in Dublin.
The council voted 5-0 Tuesday night to approve the Stoneridge Chrysler bid, following a unanimous vote earlier by the city’s Planning Commission.
The dealer has an option to acquire 16 acres of the auto mall site, although will only uses five acres initially. The dealership will use a driveway off Stoneridge Drive to be shared by CarMax, although a new entry way directly off El Charro could be considered at a later date.
The agency will have 389 parking spaces, including 245 display stalls, 67 service vehicle stalls and 35 parking places for customers.
It will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, closing an hour earlier at 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
The large 32,000-square-foot building will consolidate the sales, parts, storage and service functions of the agency. The two-story building will include a 15,680-square-foot showroom and sales offices and another 13,200-square-foot area for vehicle servicing. A canopy where customers can drop off their cars for servicing and a car wash to be used by agency employees will be located on the west side of the main building.
“The (dealership) will increase the city’s economic base and provide another option for purchasers of cars within Pleasanton, the Tri-Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area,” stated Brian Dolan, the city’s director of Community development in a report to the Council.
Good news for Pleasanton city revenue, I suppose.
But, am I the only one who sees that the constant shifting of businesses from one place to another is resulting in a trail of empty and unusable commercial buildings, filling up the landscape and resulting only in further sprawl? This problem is most evident in Dublin’s broad commercial corridor, but we see it in P’ton and Livermore as well.
The pronlem is not with the existing location, it is with the sleezeball sales people who leech on and don’t leave unless they sell or you walk away.
Interstate frontage is the most appropriate spot for a car dealership. Great win for Pleasanton.
Crappy cars, purchased by dumb Americans….
They are coming home.
The dealership was on Stoneridge Mall Road for years.
@Mai Gin:
Are you one of those immigrants that gave their eye teeth to get to this country? Now that you are here, you bad mouth Americans!!!
Do you know how many American people fought and died so that you can be here?
If you do not like Americans, I suggest you leave, go back where you came from. Take your filthy mouth with you.
Well said Michael!