Quechee
Jake’s Market & Deli owner Ed Kerrigan has closed on the purchase of an approximately 1-acre parcel of land adjacent to the Dunkin’ Donuts on Route 4, a short distance east of his Jake’s Market and Deli location.
The site currently has a building on it that will be demolished and upon which an automatic two-bay car wash and laundromat will be built with a target opening date next spring, according to Kerrigan.
He said the car wash would be similar to the one at the Jake’s Market and Deli on Mechanic Street in Lebanon, “except with the next generation of car-washing” equipment.
At the Quechee site, “originally I was just going to build a car wash but then I started thinking if there was anything else I could do there and I realized there is a need for a laundromat too,” he said.
At present, the closest laundromat to Quechee is the recently re-opened Laundry Room on Pleasant Street on the east side of Woodstock.
Otherwise, Quechee and Woodstock area residents need to drive to West Lebanon or South Royalton to reach the next closest laundromat.
For automatic car washes the availability is even slimmer — the Sykes Mountain Avenue area in White River Junction to the east and Rutland to the west, Kerrigan noted.
Kerrigan said he is also weighing adding a “wash and fold” service to laundromat, in addition to having it serve as a drop-off and pick-up location for dry cleaning. “We’re exploring that,” he said.
John Lippman can be reached at jlippman@vnews.com.
