A new Cambridge car wash on Hespeler Road is hoping to have shovels in the ground in September and be up and running in 2024.
The sign has been erected for Smitty’s Car Wash next to the new Rowdy’s Bar and Restaurant but ground has yet to be broken.
A notice posted out in front of the location stated that a minor variance application addressing the interior side yard was to be presented to the Committee of Adjustment at a May 31 meeting.
However, that application was withdrawn after the company modified the width of the car wash.
The business is now in the process of preparing to submit for a building permit.
Smitty’s Car Wash currently operates several locations throughout the United States, including in Illinois, Maryland, Montana, Nevada and Texas.
The Cambridge location will be the first in Canada.
“We’re very excited to be in Cambridge,” Jeff Newland, director of construction services for Smitty’s Car Wash told CambridgeToday.
“We’re in the design phase right now and hope to submit for our building permit at the end of July or the first of August. This would have us breaking ground sometime in September.”
It’s expected that once permits are granted, construction will take seven to nine months.