Property partnership
Excellence Auto Salon operates as a luxury car detailing concession inside premium enclosed parking facilities in Chicago. Your residents, tenants and guests receive a high-end amenity they will use repeatedly, delivered without leaving the building. The property receives a new revenue line from floor area that presently earns nothing.
01 — The proposition
Revenue
A parking space or wash bay that produces nothing today becomes a revenue-sharing concession. No capital outlay, no headcount and no operating burden on your team.
Retention
Unlike most building amenities, this one is used repeatedly by the same residents and tenants. It is a visible, recurring reason your building is worth the premium.
Differentiation
Luxury automobile care performed in-house, on the resident’s schedule, is a leasing and sales point that competing buildings cannot match without a partner like us.
02 — The structure
The arrangement is deliberately simple. We bring the entire operation. You provide the space and the access, and you share in what it earns.
Compensation is agreed per property, because the economics differ with the size of the garage, the profile of the residents and the hours available to us — which is why we begin with an introductory period rather than a fixed figure.
03 — Why in the garage
The drive home is what ruins the work. In your building, there is none.
Having a car properly cared for normally costs the owner a morning — the drive over, the wait, the drive back. The work itself is usually done indoors. Then the moment the car is finished it goes straight back out into Chicago: rain, snow, salted slush and every puddle between there and home. It is compromised before it is parked.
Inside your facility that problem disappears. The car is finished in the garage it lives in and returns to its own space. For the resident it is the only version of this service that truly holds. For the building it is the reason they will use it again next month rather than once.
It is also why we do not compromise on the site requirement. The operating area has to be protected from weather — underground, enclosed or fully covered. Everything the service promises depends on it.
04 — Operating standard
A concession in a premium garage is a reflection on the property. We are conscious that our conduct in the building is part of what you are agreeing to.
Personnel
Every service is carried out by an individual who has completed our rigorous ninety-day training programme. No casual labour, no rotating crews through your garage.
Footprint
A defined operating area, left as found. Water and electrical use agreed in advance, and no disruption to circulation or to other users of the deck.
Cover
We carry our own insurance and handle our own payment processing. Nothing about the concession runs through your accounting or your front desk.
Discretion
Our clients include professional athletes, business leaders and physicians for whom privacy matters as much as the result. That expectation extends to how we operate on your property.
05 — Who this is written for
The model works wherever there is enclosed, weather-protected parking and an ownership that cares how the building presents. If that describes a property in your portfolio, the conversation is worth having.
Operators
This page is addressed to the parking operators and building owners running assets of that description in Chicago — organisations of the scale of Metropolis, LAZ Parking and General Parking, and buildings of the calibre of One Bennett Place.
The model is designed to be repeated. Once a location is established and running to standard, the same arrangement extends across a portfolio without redesigning it each time.
06 — What your residents receive
Excellence Auto Salon has been in this business since 1996, in show-car preparation and vehicle-delivery presentation — including work directly with Ferrari. The standard is to care for the vehicle the way the factory that built it would.
The menu
A short, clear menu of four services — The Wash, the Interior Detail, the Exterior Detail and the Concours — from $99, each priced for a sedan or an SUV. Nothing for residents to argue over, and nothing further on the account. Specialist work is assessed in person and quoted on the condition of the car.
Membership
Reserved for residents and tenants of partner properties — monthly, fortnightly and concierge arrangements that convert one-off visits into recurring revenue for both parties.
Booking
Residents select services and hold a date and time online. No account is presented until the resident has said the car is right. Your management team is never placed in the middle of a booking, nor of a complaint.
Send us the property and we will come and walk the deck. If the space is suitable, we will put the arrangement in writing.