I noticed driving home today that the old Homeland (may have been an Albertsons I don't remember) on the corner of NW Expressway and MacArthur was being demolished. Anyone have any news on what this might be making room for?

Looks like a carwash. The property address is 5857 NW Expressway, and the city council appears to have approve it.
It looks like Blue Beacon International, Inc operates truck washes, but I can't see a truck wash being feasible there?

https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/warracresok/uploads/2017/06/minutes-4-18-17.pdf

Albertson's leased the land from the owners and the lease was terminated in July of 2017.

Looks like a carwash. The property address is 5857 NW Expressway, and the city council appears to have approve it.
It looks like Blue Beacon International, Inc operates truck washes, but I can't see a truck wash being feasible there?

https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/warracresok/uploads/2017/06/minutes-4-18-17.pdf

Albertson's leased the land from the owners and the lease was terminated in July of 2017.

Wow, thanks for all that. I need to enlist your help on other projects!

It looks like all of Blue Beacon's other locations are on major highways and interstates and are full-on truck washes.

This must be some variation for cars, although this is a huge property so even that doesn't make sense.

Very worried about this... Especially since their locations are absolutely hideous.

http://www.bluebeacon.com/Carlisle-042LocationPhoto12.jpg

http://www.bluebeacon.com/

Wow, thanks for all that. I need to enlist your help on other projects!

It looks like all of Blue Beacon's other locations are on major highways and interstates and are full-on truck washes.

This must be some variation for cars, although this is a huge property so even that doesn't make sense.

Very worried about this... Especially since their locations are absolutely hideous.

http://www.bluebeacon.com/Carlisle-042LocationPhoto12.jpg

http://www.bluebeacon.com/

Oh my word....

Oh my word....

Happy to have the information, but man I wish this going to a different use.

I wonder if the car wash will only be a portion of the site.

Also, the owner of this site also owns the building near the southwest corner of MacArthur and Northwest Expressway with Tropical Cafe in it.

Ugh...that's ugly

I wouldn't be surprised if the car wash will be setback on the site closer to Meridian with additional retail pad sites on the NW Expressway frontage. It would follow the area's development pattern.

southwest corner of MacArthur and MeridianThis I have to see! I've been to the corner of NW 50 and NW 51 quite often, and used to get some great burgers and root beer at NW 19 and NW 23, but I've not heard of the corner of two N-S section lines before...

This I have to see! I've been to the corner of NW 50 and NW 51 quite often, and used to get some great burgers and root beer at NW 19 and NW 23, but I've not heard of the corner of two N-S section lines before...

Whoops *MacArthur and Northwest Expressway. I fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out

Here is a story that Molly Fleming wrote yesterday for Journal Record about this project.

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http://journalrecord.com/2017/09/14/green-lantern-clearing-former-homeland-site-for-car-wash/

See below:

Green Lantern clearing former Homeland site for car wash

By: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record September 14, 2017

WARR ACRES – A former grocery store is being demolished to make way for a new-to-market car wash.

Green Lantern Car Wash is building its first Oklahoma store at 5857 Northwest Expressway. Demolition has already started on the existing Homeland building. The site is at the northeast corner of Northwest Expressway and N. MacArthur Boulevard.

Homeland only had a ground lease on the nearly 5-acre site. The grocery store closed in 2014. New York-based The Langman Co. owns the site.

CBRE’s Stuart Graham handled the leasing transaction. He said it was tough to find a new tenant because of the surrounding retail base. The major retail hubs are at Northwest Expressway and N. Rockwell Avenue and N. May Avenue and NW 63rd Street. Graham called the MacArthur site an in-between location.

Another grocer wouldn’t work because the surrounding area has several already, including a Walmart Neighborhood Market, a Crest Foods, and a Sprouts Farmers Market.

In addition, in the last few years, grocery retailers have been shrinking their store size. The Homeland building measures 54,071 square feet. The average grocery store is about 45,000 square feet.

Graham said he had a couple of letters of intent to divide the box, but they didn’t come to fruition. He’s also had lots of calls from people about buying the site, but The Langman Co. has no interest in selling, he said.

With the high traffic counts, an automotive-related business made sense, Graham said.

Blue Beacon International’s real estate director, Don Boos, said the company has been looking at Oklahoma City for a couple of years. Blue Beacon started as a truck-wash company with locations in 39 states. The company is based in Salina, Kansas. It often builds next to Love’s Travel Stops, he said.

“We think we know more about car washing than anyone in the world,” he said.

The company is also building a car wash at NW 10th Street and Czech Hall Road in Oklahoma City. He said there will be multiple locations in the city.

“It takes two to three locations before people figure us out,” he said.

He said the Northwest Expressway site offered several key amenities, such as constant traffic. He called the expressway a retailer’s dream street because of the all-day traffic.

The company is building a 13,000-square-foot car wash facility, featuring bays where people can have their vehicles cleaned by the staff. There will also be free vacuums.

The entire site isn’t needed, so a pad site will be leased between Zaxby’s and Whatburger. Those restaurants are on the MacArthur Boulevard side.

The Homeland will be demolished in about 30 days, he said. Construction will start immediately and the car wash should be open by spring 2018.

Yeah, Green Lantern is the car wash version of Blue Beacon:

https://media.licdn.com/media/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAVSAAAAJDRhYWNiNmUxLWQ0YjktNGRjMy1iMz U0LTE0NWJjZjM2YmI4NA.png

Ah darn. I was really hoping for a bright green painted brick building. That would have been an awesome eyesore of a building.

I've never had my car washed by a Green Lantern. Which one is it? I hope it's Kilowog, he's cool.

Here's to hoping they fix the parking lot. I was trying to cut through after going to Zaxby's once and you would seriously crash your car into a hole and never return. It is worse than this now, but even Google maps caught it. Note the water. There is no other water around, which means these are deep!!!

https://i.imgur.com/rrtfsRg.png

Building is now gone as of 9/22/17.

Lots of work being done on the lot right now, Whenever I think of a car wash being able to afford a lot that size I start thinking of the breaking bad show. I'm all for a great car wash. OKC needs better car washes for sure.

It makes me sad that this likely means the end of the USA CarWash just east of MacArthur on the south side of Northwest Expressway. While their facility is "aged", I've always received a good job, or if I saw something wrong they never hesitated to fix it. Family run too.

You can see the walls are going up on the car wash.

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/nwexmac122717.jpg

What is different about this car wash? This thing is going to be huge. wow

The car wash is taking only the eastern part of all that cleared land.

They are looking for other uses for the remainder.

C'mon guys, say car worsh like a good Oklahoman would.

I have noticed over the past few days that the old Shorty Smalls' building (was later a pawn shop) just west of MacArthur has been demolished and now they are demolishing the Joe's Crab Shack building. Any ideas what is going in here?

http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=43577&page=2&p=1017871#post1017871

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