Store/Service/Delivery Center - Central Jersey - Lawrenceville NJ

[GBMaryland]

New Jersey has the most convoluted laws next to places MA, and CA.

The whole concept of you can’t open a new type dealer because it’ll unfairly affect competition... just reeks of behind door dealing and the Mob style of mentality. We are not a communist style of government or economy, and its amazing to me that a State is stifling competition, when master mechanics will just end up working to Tesla.

Yeah, I grew up there... I paid $10,000 a year in taxes on a $318,000 house. This is all about NJ trying to screw Tesla out of its profits. Personally, I’d like to see Tesla take them to court.

 

[wise82guy]

I was in Cherry Hill for service ~2 weeks ago and asked about the Lawrenceville (which everyone there seems to refer to as "Princeton") location opening. My service advisor was aware of the legal restriction on sales locations or "dealerships" that Tesla is allowed to operate in NJ, and wasn't sure if Lawrenceville was going to be a sales location (taking a sales license away from an existing location?) in addition to service, or service-only. He was confident that the location would open soon because they had put hiring for the location on hold for several months, but recently re-instated hiring plans for service techs in preparation to actually open the location.

Big grain of salt with all of this given the troubled history of trying to get this site open of course, but fingers crossed.

 

[Syd]

Latest is that it will be taking a license from another location and that location will turn into a gallery, but also take with a grain of salt.

 

[insider]

I saw a scissor lift and some sort of renovations underway inside the building the last time I drove past it. Fingers crossed!

 

[wise82guy]

Was there an hour ago, and there were cars parked and people inside. No furniture etc yet, but at least there's some encouraging activity underway.

 

[PraDes]

I was at Springfield Service Center this afternoon and had a talk with one of their service specialists. According to him, Princeton center opens by the end of this month. They are recruiting now. Couple days back, on phone, another service guy had told me that they intend to start taking service appointments from mid-November at this center. Let’s see!

 

[Cirrus MS100D]

Great news, thank you for the update! We were hoping to have this up and running by the time we needed some routine preventative maintenance on the AC system, sunroof rails, brake cleaning, etc. - Just a bit too much for a ranger to do AFAIK. I'll wait til they've been up and running for a few months so the techs aren't as wet behind the ears

The big question is still whether or not this is "just" a Service Center or whether it also hosts sales too.

 

[Falcon_Heavy]

I hope they install some supercharging stall as well for quick recharge. About 10 days ago, they were duing interior drywall spackling and sanding.

 

[jdccar]

Was just by and told they are shooting for an opening of 10/18. Fingers crossed. Sounds like it will jut be an SC for now, though they clearly have it laid out for a showroom / sales floor should that become a possibility.

 

[JTNJ]

Just passed by. They have hours on the door

Service Hours
Monday - Friday: 7AM - 7PM
Saturday: 8AM - 4PM
Sunday: Closed

Sales Hours
Monday - Saturday: 10AM - 6PM
Sunday: Closed

There's also wifi, but it's locked.

 

[thescott18]

Was just by and told they are shooting for an opening of 10/18. Fingers crossed. Sounds like it will jut be an SC for now, though they clearly have it laid out for a showroom / sales floor should that become a possibility.

My wife stopped by earlier today and said they still were not opened.

 

[StockSoul]

Stopped by today. Still doesn't look ready to open. I wonder when it will.

 

[Luso7]

Someone on the phone at another center said they are aiming for end of month or
December

 

[wise82guy]

Rolled through today... Some more construction progress since I last looked a few weeks ago, but still no furniture/etc inside.

 

[Falcon_Heavy]

Rolled through today... Some more construction progress since I last looked a few weeks ago, but still no furniture/etc inside.

Also passed by couple of hrs ago, There are a bunch of "wall connectors" installed outside. lights were ON and interior seems completed but no furniture.

 

[caps04]

Yeah, the wall connectors in the parking lot were just installed in the last couple of days. Saw three different crew vehicles in the parking lot. My guess is it will open after Thanksgiving.

 

[caps04]

So I finally spoke to someone at the Princeton SC. Service will open to customers sometime next week*. Showroom/sales opening is still TBD.

*as long as there are no unexpected hiccups, he cautioned.

 

[Luso7]

Waiting for more morsels of info on this one. Going to be much better location for me

 

[jdccar]

Was by today and there is at least furniture in the showroom, and some actual Tesla vehicles in the service area. However, a person in there said it would not be open for another few weeks. So, the wait continues.

 

[truebeliEVer]

Stopped by last Friday and six HPWC were installed and powered. I had a nice chat with an employee and he said I could charge but they were temporarily restricted to12A. Expecting full power sometime this week.