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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A long vacant property along a busy stretch of roadway in the city will be the home of a car wash.</p><p>Site work has begun for a <a href="https://cloud10carwash.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cloud10 Car Wash</a> at 150 N. Wilkes-Barre Blvd. next to the Turkey Hill store at the bottom of Coal Street.</p><p>Brendan Johnson of Darien, Connecticut, a principal with the company, said the project should be completed next year. Panzitta Enterprises Inc. of Wilkes-Barre is the contractor for the project.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an express car wash. It&#8217;s a new model we&#8217;re bringing to the area,&#8221; Johnson said earlier this week.</p><p>&#8220;It will have free vacuums and automated tellers where people can buy monthly passes,&#8221; Johnson said.</p><p>The wash use &#8220;water-efficient and eco-friendly processes,&#8221; according to Cloud10&#8217;s website.</p><p>The Wilkes-Barre location will be like the company&#8217;s car wash that recently opened in Naples, Florida, Johnson said. &#8220;They&#8217;re architecturally beautiful,&#8221; he said.</p><p>The nearest Cloud10 is in Colmar in Montgomery County.</p><p>The company also has car washes in Willimantic and Manchester, Connecticut.</p><p>Additional car washes are planned for Wormleysburg in Cumberland County, Sewell, New Jersey, Naples and Ormond Beach, Florida.</p><p>The property had been advertised for a while, said Joe Lakowski, who works with Jewelcor. Jewelcor President and CEO Seymour Holzman and his wife Evelyn sold the property recently, Lakowski added.</p><p>Lakowski said Johnson&#8217;s broker has ties to the area and that&#8217;s how Johnson became interested in the site.</p><p>&#8220;This has been going on for a year or so,&#8221; Lakowski said.</p><p>Lakowski said the car wash site is not a Keystone Opportunity Zone that provides tax benefits. He added that there is still some available land nearby &#8212; three-quarters of an acre each behind the car wash property and the Turkey Hill and one and a half acres next to Turkey Hill.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Site work has begun for a Cloud10 Car Wash at 150 N. Wilkes-Barre Blvd. in Wilkes-Barre with a planned opening in 2020. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/web1_TTL091319CarWash.jpg</photo0><caption0>Site work has begun for a Cloud10 Car Wash at 150 N. Wilkes-Barre Blvd. in Wilkes-Barre with a planned opening in 2020. </caption0><photoCredit0>Aimee Dilger | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Jerry Lynott</p><p>jlynott@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Jerry Lynott at 570-991-6120 or on Twitter @TLJerryLynott.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Car wash coming to Wilkes-Barre Blvd. site