by Michael Kubinski | Apr 17, 2024 | Blog, Dealership Construction, Dealership Design, Project Management
“So, what do you guys do anyway?” In many respects it’s an honest question. Certainly, there are no shortage of consultant jokes out there. In reality, the owner’s representative plays a crucial role in your project. An owner’s representative oversees and...
by Martin Meissner | Feb 22, 2024 | Blog, Dealership Construction, Dealership Design, Dealership Technology, Uncategorized
Rytec’s Spiral Full Vision doors present a great visual to the service drive of this dealership. They create an openness to the service drive while keeping the space conditioned summer or winter. Whenever we embark on a service drive or workshop project, one of...
by Michael Kubinski | Jun 27, 2023 | Dealership Construction, Dealership Design, Dealership Technology, Project Management, Uncategorized
It seems it’s a de facto part of almost every project discussion these days. We are on calls with an automotive brand, and they are talking about their EV strategy. Brands stating that they will not build anymore internal combustion engines (ICE) after a certain model...
by Martin Meissner | May 3, 2023 | Dealership Construction, Dealership Design, Dealership Technology, Project Management, Uncategorized
We’ve heard the stories time and again of dealer principals who have been burned on previous projects or who are frustrated as their current projects timeline and budget spiral over plan. Most of the time its due to five mistakes owners make when building or...
by Michael Kubinski | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog, Dealership Construction, Dealership Design, Dealership Technology
Washing a customer’s car is like a cup of coffee. Probably not a blog topic or association you might expect here. Bear with me. A few weeks ago, I was visiting a dealership. As I wandered around the store while waiting for my meeting, I noticed there was no coffee...
by Michael Kubinski | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog, Dealership Construction, Dealership Design
Balloons may look fun and pretty, but really only serve to distract customers from the cars on display in the showroom. Make the cars the stars. Use them to create that desire to be inside them driving them. Its not as hard as you might think. I’ve often walked into a...