TURNKEY CAR WASH & DETAIL SHOP WITH REAL ESTATE — ASHBURN, CHICAGO
Finished in natural stone. Drains connected and zoned for automotive use. Already open and running. Available three ways: the business, the building, or both — and you don't need capital for all of it.
AT A GLANCE
• 4,912 SF free-standing building — approx. 500 SF finished office and customer area, approx. 4,400 SF open clear-span workspace
• Two new 10' overhead doors · heated throughout · 5 rear parking spaces
• Natural stone finishes in the customer waiting area and restroom
• Employee restroom with shower · electric water heater
• Zoned C1-1 — automotive, service, retail, contractor, storage
• Floor drains connected and permitted · established recurring customer base
A BUILDING THAT WASN'T BUILT DOWN TO A PRICE
Most shops in this range are sold rough — bare block, worn slab, a utility bathroom, a folding chair by the door. This is not that building.
The customer waiting area and restroom are finished in natural stone. Not tile made to look like stone — real stone, installed with the care you expect in a showroom, not a shop. The garage is heated end to end. The overhead doors are new. The office is finished. Walk five other buildings at this price on the South Side and you'll know within thirty seconds what you're looking at here.
It also does something quiet but valuable: it changes how a customer feels the moment they walk in, and it changes what you can charge them.
OPTION 1 — THE BUSINESS · $199,000
For the buyer who wants an operating business without buying real estate. Take over the car wash, detail shop, and keep running it in place. The real estate is leased back from ownership, so no property down payment is required. All equipment, trade fixtures, and the existing customer base with monthly recurring service are included.
YOU DON'T NEED TO BE A DETAILER TO BUY THIS. The seller provides hands-on training and transition support, and the current crew — who already know the equipment, the process, and the regular customers — intend to stay on. First-time owners and investors placing a manager both fit here. Open, staffed, and producing from day one.
OPTION 2 — THE REAL ESTATE · $540,000
For the owner-user who wants a shop, service bay, or warehouse of their own. All equipment and trade fixtures will be removed or negotiated separately.
The building, the finishes, and the land. Delivered as a vanilla shell.
OPTION 3 - Purchase both as a package for $635,000
THE FINISHES STAY. The stone, the office, the overhead doors, the heat — those are the building, and they transfer with it.
Once the drains are sealed, the wash use does not return without a fresh permit process through the City and MWRD. If you intend to wash cars here, buy the business with the building.
If you want a clean, heated, drive-in building for storage, contracting, or any non-wash trade, this is a rare one: finished, move-in ready, and with a front end that already looks like a business worth trusting.
OPTION 3 — BOTH
For the buyer who's done paying rent.
Property and business, under one owner. No landlord, no lease renewal, no rent increase. Income from the day you take the keys.
Purchased together, NOTHING IS REMOVED. The facility transfers intact and operating — drains connected, equipment in place, stone in the waiting room, doors open, customers coming through. Package pricing available on request.
STILL DECIDING?
Most people calling on this are weighing whether to lease a shop or own one. This deal doesn't force that call today. Take the business, lease the building, and buy the real estate later if the numbers work. Very few listings are structured to let you.
And one thing worth understanding: a car wash like this is extremely difficult to build in Chicago now. The drains are connected, the separator is in place, and the zoning already permits the use. That approval path takes years, and the City does not always say yes. Here it's already done, already approved, already open — in a building that was properly finished the first time.
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