JPP
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Dropped by the Dublin location this morning at about 9:00 am, and ran into David McVey, Project Manager for Retail Development out of the PA corporate offices. Very friendly Scot (...more on that later). He gave me a brief tour of the exterior.
Still lots of work underway:
Painters up and about finishing up the exterior
Singage mostly up--red one on the back facing the freeway, grey one over the main entrance.
Electricians wiring up Superchargers--there is 1 operational HPWC currently mounted on an exterior post near the drive-through service entrance. There is stationary storage with the Superchargers behind a fenced in area--old school type. No PV solar (...yet).
Service area nice and large, opens front and back--maybe 10-12 Rotary Hoists in place. Lots of electrical work going on inside for NEMA 14-50s and HPWCs.
Service offices have furniture (still in plastic wrap).
Sales office still a work in progress.
Parking area striping to start today.
They made no sturctural/architectural changes to the old facility--just reworked the interior as needed.
David expects to have all construction fundamentally complete on or around Fri. 8/21, with opening soon therafter. He expects that there will be an opening celebration in that time frame (couple of weeks). He commented that the parking lot was large now, but expects that when Model 3 arrives, they will soon outgrow it.
He believes that the new Service Manager will be a veteran (forget his name), a local who was originally at Menlo Park, then Burlingame, then in Europe, and now getting to return to the Bay Area.
David sounds like a busy guy, travelling a lot to oversee construction of retail sites/service centers. He notes that TM really hustles on these projects--no time to waste. Deadlines are short--hours are long. Funny--he is driving a non-Tesla vehicle. He noted that his colleagues give him a hard time about it, but that as a thrifty Scot he could not see getting a new S since he is on the road all of the time (flying...). I said maybe he needed a CPO to drive around locally. BTW, he saw Jerome G. in Fremont last week and said he looked rested and less stressed--guess he really diid need a break.
Still lots of work underway:
Painters up and about finishing up the exterior
Singage mostly up--red one on the back facing the freeway, grey one over the main entrance.
Electricians wiring up Superchargers--there is 1 operational HPWC currently mounted on an exterior post near the drive-through service entrance. There is stationary storage with the Superchargers behind a fenced in area--old school type. No PV solar (...yet).
Service area nice and large, opens front and back--maybe 10-12 Rotary Hoists in place. Lots of electrical work going on inside for NEMA 14-50s and HPWCs.
Service offices have furniture (still in plastic wrap).
Sales office still a work in progress.
Parking area striping to start today.
They made no sturctural/architectural changes to the old facility--just reworked the interior as needed.
David expects to have all construction fundamentally complete on or around Fri. 8/21, with opening soon therafter. He expects that there will be an opening celebration in that time frame (couple of weeks). He commented that the parking lot was large now, but expects that when Model 3 arrives, they will soon outgrow it.
He believes that the new Service Manager will be a veteran (forget his name), a local who was originally at Menlo Park, then Burlingame, then in Europe, and now getting to return to the Bay Area.
David sounds like a busy guy, travelling a lot to oversee construction of retail sites/service centers. He notes that TM really hustles on these projects--no time to waste. Deadlines are short--hours are long. Funny--he is driving a non-Tesla vehicle. He noted that his colleagues give him a hard time about it, but that as a thrifty Scot he could not see getting a new S since he is on the road all of the time (flying...). I said maybe he needed a CPO to drive around locally. BTW, he saw Jerome G. in Fremont last week and said he looked rested and less stressed--guess he really diid need a break.
