A busy time for car wash, oil change franchises in Buffalo’s suburbs

It may be summer, but it has been a busy few weeks in Buffalo’s suburbs – especially for large national car wash and oil change companies.

Royal Wash Development – an affiliate of Rochester’s Daniele Companies that works with GO Car Wash Management Co. of Denver – is proposing to develop a pair of car wash facilities in the towns of Orchard Park and Hamburg.

In Orchard Park, it is targeting a parcel of vacant land at the northeast corner of Abbott and Milestrip roads. The Town Board granted a special-use permit last month.

In Hamburg, it is eyeing 3233 Lake Shore Road. The company has also been pursuing locations recently in West Seneca, Clarence, Orchard Park and Tonawanda, although the West Seneca site was denied a special-use permit. Some of those sites have generated opposition from neighbors.

GO Car Wash has more than 110 locations in eight states, including 24 across Western and upstate New York already under its banner, in transition or under development.

The project is being reviewed by Orchard Park officials.

The Orchard Park Planning Board on Thursday also will consider a request to construct a warehouse and office building with associated parking and site improvements at 275 Thorn Ave., on the south side of the street, east of Duerr Road. Additionally, Maple Grove Apartments at 4038 California Road wants to rezone its property.

Then there is Take 5 Oil Change, an oil change and car wash franchise division of Charlotte, N.C.-based Driven Brands, an aftermarket auto maintenance company that also owns and operates Meineke Car Care Centers, Maaco and Carstar brand.

Take 5 opened its first location in Western New York in Depew, and now it is trying to expand, through Quattro Development.

It has been pursuing a new location in Lockport, where Quattro and Hospitality Syracuse, the owner of the property at 5687 Transit Road, are proposing a Take 5 facility.

Now, it is taking aim at West Seneca,…