Tesla to spend $6.7M converting former Austin grocery store to showroom

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Tesla to spend $6.7M converting former Austin H-E-B to showroom
The showroom could be as large as 64,771 square feet, according to a filing.
Chris O'Connell
June 23, 2023

Earlier this week, the Austin Business Journal reported Tesla was up to something at a former southwest Austin H-E-B store. Located at 7010 West Highway 71, Austin, TX 78735, and known colloquially as "the Y," where Highway 71 and Route 290 split, it would be another facility for the electric car company that has made its presence felt in Central Texas over the last few years.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing is sparse in detail. Under the Scope of Work section, it reads, simply: "Interior buildout for Tesla." The space, categorized as a renovation/alteration, is listed at 64,771 square feet. The estimated project cost is $6,700,000 and construction is slated to begin on December 12, 2023, with a completion date set for November 12, 2024.

A June 9 filing with the City of Austin, first reported by the Austin American-Statesman, provides more insight on what the electric vehicle company plans to do in the disused H-E-B space. Categorized as under expedited review, the description for the project is "Change of Use/Remodel to an existing HEB Store into a new Tesla Automotive Dealership."

The dealership — Tesla calls them showrooms or galleries — is called Tesla Center West Austin, and will take over the H-E-B at Center of the Hills that moved to a new space in 2021.

As of this week, the plumbing, fire, health, and commercial zoning portions of the review have been approved.

When completed, this would be the fourth such Tesla showroom in Central Texas. Because the company owns the manufacturing facilities and the showrooms, Texas law dictates that, despite welcoming Tesla with open arms, customers cannot purchase vehicles directly in the showrooms and that cars made in Texas have to be taken out of state and brought back in before being sold to Texas residents.


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Tesla to spend $6.7M converting former Austin H-E-B to showroom
The showroom could be as large as 64,771 square feet, according to a filing.
Chris O'Connell
June 23, 2023

Earlier this week, the Austin Business Journal reported Tesla was up to something at a former southwest Austin H-E-B store. Located at 7010 West Highway 71, Austin, TX 78735, and known colloquially as "the Y," where Highway 71 and Route 290 split, it would be another facility for the electric car company that has made its presence felt in Central Texas over the last few years.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing is sparse in detail. Under the Scope of Work section, it reads, simply: "Interior buildout for Tesla." The space, categorized as a renovation/alteration, is listed at 64,771 square feet. The estimated project cost is $6,700,000 and construction is slated to begin on December 12, 2023, with a completion date set for November 12, 2024.

A June 9 filing with the City of Austin, first reported by the Austin American-Statesman, provides more insight on what the electric vehicle company plans to do in the disused H-E-B space. Categorized as under expedited review, the description for the project is "Change of Use/Remodel to an existing HEB Store into a new Tesla Automotive Dealership."

The dealership — Tesla calls them showrooms or galleries — is called Tesla Center West Austin, and will take over the H-E-B at Center of the Hills that moved to a new space in 2021.

As of this week, the plumbing, fire, health, and commercial zoning portions of the review have been approved.

When completed, this would be the fourth such Tesla showroom in Central Texas. Because the company owns the manufacturing facilities and the showrooms, Texas law dictates that, despite welcoming Tesla with open arms, customers cannot purchase vehicles directly in the showrooms and that cars made in Texas have to be taken out of state http://essaypapers.reviews/ and brought back in before being sold to Texas residents.


https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/heb-becoming-tesla-showroom-18167501.php

This is nice, but when will it be able to be sold from the dealer? Because I am tired of going for maintenance in another state.

 

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This is nice, but when will it be able to be sold from the dealer? Because I am tired of going for maintenance in another state.

Tesla to open its first Upstate New York sales showroom in deal with Oneida Indian Nation
Published: Jun. 06, 2023, 8:46 a.m.

This rendering, subject to design changes, shows the proposed Tesla electric vehicle showroom on Oneida Indian Nation land near Canastota , N.Y. (LGA Partners for Tesla).

By Don Cazentre | dcazentre@nyup.com

Canastota, N.Y. — Tesla, the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles, plans to open a sales and delivery outlet with service and expanded charging locations just off the New York State Thruway in Madison County.

The 25,000-square-foot showroom is planned for a tract of Oneida Indian Nation-owned land across from the International Boxing Hall of Fame at Thruway Exit 34 near Canastota. It would be Tesla’s first direct sales outlet in the state outside the New York City area and is expected to open in 2025.

But you won’t have to wait that long to find Tesla nearby.

Starting in a week or so, Tesla will offer delivery of pre-ordered electric vehicles at the Oneidas’ Turning Stone Resort Casino off Thruway Exit 33 in Verona. Tesla will maintain offices at Turning Stone for delivery processing and registration. Delivery will be available on the top floor of the casino’s parking garage. That will continue during construction of the new showroom.

The Tesla deal with the Oneidas provides a legal framework for the auto company to expand into Upstate New York.

Tesla, whose CEO is billionaire Elon Musk, has always preferred to sell directly to consumers without going through third-party dealerships. But a New York state law that took effect in 2014 tightened up rules that require vehicle manufacturers to sell through dealerships.

Four existing Tesla direct sale showrooms were allowed to remain open at that time — two in Westchester County and one each in New York City and on Long Island. The closest to Central New York is in Mt. Kisco, Westchester County, more than 250 miles from Canastota.

The new showroom will “eliminate obstacles to electric vehicle (EV) ownership in Upstate New York,” the Oneidas said in announcing the partnership.

“Tesla’s partnership with the Oneida Indian Nation is an opportunity to make electric vehicles and charging infrastructure more accessible to Nation Members and the residents of Upstate New York,” Rohan Patel, Tesla’s vice president for public policy and business development, said in a statement accompanying the Oneida news release.

The location near Canastota was chosen because of the ease of access to the Thruway, which carries about 250 million vehicles per year. The parcel is now occupied by a Oneida Nation Enterprises-owned Savon gas station and convenience market, which will be replaced by a nation-owned Maple View Market and retail plaza as part of the redevelopment, the Oneidas said.

The Tesla deal with the Oneidas is made possible under terms of a “settlement agreement” the nation reached with New York state in 2013, said Joel Barkin, the nation’s vice president of communications. That agreement, specific to the Oneidas, resolved several long-standing issues with the state, including land claims, law enforcement and taxes.

The 2013 agreement, the Oneidas say, allows them to “pursue responsible land use and economic development initiatives without (state) interference.” Since the agreement went into effect, the Oneida nation has paid the state and 10 Central New York counties more than $600 million through a 25% share of the slot machine revenues at its gaming operations. Last year, those payments reached a record $85 million.

A follow-up agreement with the state controls how taxes will be handled in deals such as the one with Tesla. The auto company will send what would have been the state’s share of sales taxes on purchased vehicles to the Oneida Indian Nation. The nation will use that money to pay for its governmental programs like public safety, health care, education and environmental conservation.

Tesla will remit county sales tax collections as usual “with no loss of tax revenue whatsoever to local communities,” the Oneida news release says.

Tesla has struck similar arrangements with sovereign Indian nations in other states that prohibit direct-to-customer sales, such as New Mexico.

“This initiative and partnership with Tesla align with the Nation’s commitment to environmental stewardship, the constant diversification of our enterprises and warm hospitality for all who enter our ancestral homelands,” Oneida Indian Nation Representative and Oneida Nation Enterprises CEO Ray Halbritter said in the news release.


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