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A picture says a thousand words. Work continues on the Fairfield Inn side of the facility. Tesla equipment onsite. Four back in and eight pull through locations confirmed. IMHO, it's going to be a small parking lot to get in and out of while pulling a trailer.

Request admin upgrade the permit symbol to a construction cone. I went by the Fairfield Inn location to find Blackstone hard at work tearing up the parking lot. The employee running the excavator confirmed that the four spots planned for the far west end of the site are to be back in spots. He...

Friday afternoon I spoke with the manager at the Talking Cedar restaurant. He knew nothing about any supercharger construction and suggested I speak with the manager of the Fairfield Inn. He did say that the tribe owned the building in which the Fairfield Inn was located. Kayla is the manager...

Lots of luck getting a vehicle or a trailer onto the grass behind the 5 charger line in an attempt to charge a vehicle. The "drive thru line" for the Arby's is on the other end of the building. However, lots of folks, including the End of the Trail employees, use the east entrance into the...

The Rochester Supercharger, located at the End of the Trail convenience store parking lot, is operational as of 3:45 local time this afternoon.

8 December 2023: Transformer in place.

Update as of 22 November: The facility appears to be unchanged since the last post. There is no transformer on site.

If the choice is between getting a charge or being towed, there is no such thing as "a very awkward location".

All twelve pedestals are installed. It appears the Tesla power and switch gear equipment is in place. I see a pad where the transformer could go. The asphalt work appears complete but there is no lane striping or wheel stops. There are seven pedestals running east and west along 196th street and...

Tesla equipment onsite. Four pedestals set in concrete.

“I have a call in to the Chehalis tribe seeking some insight into the backstory of the facility.” The Chehalis tribal website lists the End of the Trail IV convenience store as a “Chehalis Tribal Enterprise” so, Yes, I am 99% sure this is tribal property. However, it is not in the confines of...

These images were taken this afternoon. Construction continues on the facility. I spoke with a worker (the foreman?) who told me that they "had passed an electrical inspection the day before so we are covering the lines up". I have a call in to the Chehalis tribe seeking some insight into the...

Despite the fact that none of the traditional indicators are present, construction continues on this facility. I spoke with the construction crew yesterday. The contractor is Tapps Electric, which is located in Sumner. They are indeed part of the crew who worked on the Ocean Shores job. They...

Construction is underway at this site. While the address is Rochester, the site is located in unincorporated Grand Mound. I stopped and talked to the gentleman who was running the equipment. He told me he had come to this site from the Ocean Shores project. He said this was a planned eight week...

I am attaching this information on construction of a supercharger in Rochester, WA, to this thread. Yarder On anther thread (somewhere), you stated you talked to a person working on the Ocean Shores supercharger who said he was “headed over to start work at the Arby’s in Rochester.” Here is...