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This rendering shows how the new facade of Glens Falls Toyota & Scion will look when the $2 million expansion plan is completed by approximately the end of July.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

By Barbara Pinckney<\/p>\n

The $2 million expansion and upgrade of Glens Falls Toyota & Scion will mean a better customer experience, more jobs and a wider choice of cars, says its proprietor.<\/p>\n

Howard Lebowitz, owner of the dealership at 169 Broad St., said the project, which got underway in December, should be completed by the end of July.<\/p>\n

The dealership, which opened in 1999, is getting a complete overhaul and an additional 4,000 square feet of space. This will bring it to about 26,000 square feet, Lebowitz said.<\/p>\n

More than half of the addition, about 2,500 square feet, will be devoted to a new service reception area, which will be on the opposite side of the building from its current location, he said. Customers will be able to drive their vehicles inside and discuss their needs with a representative, who will then park the car where the technicians can access it. The service bay itself has been enlarged, with two additional lifts.<\/p>\n

Customers may wait for their cars in one of two new lounges, which will occupy another chunk of the addition.
\n“We will have two very nice large waiting rooms,” Lebowitz said. “One has a fireplace and a 50-inch TV and that kind of stuff, and the other is quieter and has a kids’ area. [The area] where people wait now for service on their cars will become a filing room.” The rest of the 4,000 square feet will be used for an indoor delivery area for newly purchased cars.<\/p>\n

“Previously, when it was February and 10 degrees, we were all outside with the car running, showing the customer how the radio works,” he said. “Now it will all be inside, with lights and warmth, and when we are all done we open the garage door and they drive out.”<\/p>\n

The project also includes renovations to the showroom, the offices, “pretty much everything,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There will be an image upgrade in terms of what the building looks like from Broad Street,” Lebowitz said. “It will be aluminum composite panels. There will be a glass portal, they call it, around the door. It will be 20 or 30 feet high with LED lights in it so at night it kind of glows.”<\/p>\n

The building was designed by Glens Falls architect Gary McCoola, with Fort Edward-based V & H Construction Inc. serving as general contractor.<\/p>\n

This is the same team Lebowitz worked with when he built the dealership 15 years ago, in what had once been a Price Chopper supermarket. Glens Falls Toyota–which Lebowitz’s father, the late Harold Lebowitz, founded in 1972–previously operated on Dix Avenue.<\/p>\n

Lebowitz, who joined the business in 1976, said that after 15 years, it was time for an update.<\/p>\n

“We were bursting at the seams, for one thing,” he said. “And the other thing–the nicer lounges, the nicer service delivery areas and so on–are things I think our customers will really appreciate.”<\/p>\n

The $2 million price tag also includes a 100-space parking lot across the street from the dealership on Larose Street. Some of the spaces will be used for employee parking. Glens Falls Toyota currently employs about 28 people, and Lebowitz expects to add five or six more as a result of the expansion.<\/p>\n

The rest of the lot will be used for overflow parking of new Toyotas, and Lebowitz expects to have a lot of those.<\/p>\n

“Toyota does not pay for renovations, it is all your own money,” he said. “What they will do, once it is done, is give us an increased allotment of cars, so we should have quite a few more available then we have had in the recent past–a couple hundred extra. That will make it easier to fill orders. So if someone wants a white car with a gray interior instead of a black interior, we will probably have it.”<\/p>\n

The dealership can be reached at 793-5611.<\/p>\n

Photo Courtesy Glens Falls Toyota & Scion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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