Leal Peterbilt, a commercial Peterbilt truck dealership and service company based in Maspeth, Queens in New York City, wants to convert a partially-built car wash that never opened in Cortlandt Manor into a facility for Leal Peterbilt of Westchester.
According to attorney Brad Schwartz of the White Plains-based law firm Zarin & Steinmetz LLP, in Nov. 2017, Cortlandt’s Planning Board issued site plan and other approvals for the Crystal Clean Car Wash at the property. The building was mostly constructed, but a certificate of occupancy was not issued because certain items needed to be completed. The car wash project eventually stalled.
The entity 70 Roa Hook Realty LLC has purchased the property at 70 Roa Hook Road and is seeking site plan approval to make changes to the existing structure to accommodate parts sales and truck servicing.
“Some of these modifications include increasing the size of the service bays to accommodate trucks, adding bays and removing a portion of the existing building, an addition to the building, and new parking configuration to facilitate truck turning movements,” Schwartz said.
Among many changes proposed would be converting three existing car wash bays to be used as service bays. Two existing wash bays would be demolished and four new service bays would be created. One existing car wash bay would be converted for storage of parts.
Leal Peterbilt says that its business centers on supporting customers in buying, servicing, and maintaining Peterbilt brand trucks and related equipment. The dealership sells new Peterbilt commercial trucks, which are heavy-duty vehicles primarily used in freight hauling, construction, and other industrial transport sectors, as well as pre-owned trucks.
Leal Peterbilt stocks and sells genuine Peterbilt parts and accessories as well as providing truck servicing and repair work, often including routine maintenance, diagnostics, and warranty or post-warranty repairs to keep fleets running efficiently.
It expects that its Westchester outlet would operate Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.
The company said it does not keep stock trucks for retail sales and that most of the vehicles come in from the factory, get prepared and are picked up by the final user within a week. The company said that it could potentially keep one or two dump trucks on the site for display. It said it expects that about 14 trucks would be brought in for servicing each month. The company said it expects that only dump trucks, concrete mixer trucks, garbage trucks, oil and fuel trucks, roll offs, box trucks, conventional sleeper tractors and day cab tractors less than 30 feet in length would be at the location.
