Nationwide automobile ‘salvage service’ eyes Isle of Wight industrial park – Smithfield Instances

Nationwide automobile ‘salvage service’ eyes Isle of Wight industrial park

Printed 2:18 pm Thursday, August 25, 2022

A nationwide automotive public sale enterprise with six branches in Virginia is eyeing the Isle of Wight Industrial Park off Benn’s Church Boulevard for its seventh.

Superior Building Improvement LLC has utilized for a zoning modification to create a “scrap and salvage service” on two parcels totaling 75 acres. The appliance is on behalf of Insurance coverage Auto Auctions, an internet-based auctioneer of automobiles concerned in collisions, floods or repossessions.

In accordance with William Dytrych, supervisor of actual property growth for Insurance coverage Auto Auctions, the corporate would retailer roughly 3,500 automobiles on consignment from insurers on the proposed web site.

The auctions could be solely on-line, with many bidders originating from exterior america, Dytrych mentioned.

The location would encompass a single-story metallic constructing, concrete car parking zone for workers and prospects, and outside automobile storage paved with asphalt millings.

Entry from Benn’s Church Boulevard could be through IWIP Highway.

IWIP Highway averaged 260 automobiles per day, in response to a Nov. 16, 2020, visitors impression evaluation by Glen Allen-based Randy Kemp Associates for the undertaking. Benn’s Church Boulevard, a four-lane divided freeway, averaged 11,000. The evaluation estimates the proposed Insurance coverage Auto Auctions web site would generate an extra 190 journeys out and in of the power on a typical weekday.

Dytrych anticipates the location would create 15 full-time jobs.

“We like to rent domestically,” Dytrych mentioned, noting that the corporate can be within the follow of contracting with native towing firms to deliver automobiles out and in of its websites.

The location could be surrounded by a 6-foot fence and screened from view of Benn’s Church Boulevard by a landscaped buffer. Two stormwater ponds would facilitate drainage.

Fairly than proudly owning the land, Insurance coverage Auto Auctions is proposing a 15-year lease.

Isle of Wight’s Planning Fee held an Aug. 23 public listening to on the proposal. It drew no audio system. The commissioners, nonetheless, voted to desk the matter till September, wanting extra data on the location’s fire-prevention efforts. Commissioner Thomas Distefano additionally proposed requiring a decommissioning plan for the tip of the location’s lease, just like what the county requires for photo voltaic farms.