Mister Person
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Any idea if this will be a service center as well as sales? Or will there be some other service center in Chicago? I ordered my R1S today and am not far from this site.
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IMHO it'd be a pretty small service center for such a large metropolis and potential customer base. Paying top dollar for real estate in that neighborhood for something like a service center doesn't made a whole lot of sense.Any idea if this will be a service center as well as sales? Or will there be some other service center in Chicago? I ordered my R1S today and am not far from this site.
I generally don't disagree, but as a counter point the Bellevue service center is definitely not in an inexpensive area.IMHO it'd be a pretty small service center for such a large metropolis and potential customer base. Paying top dollar for real estate in that neighborhood for something like a service center doesn't made a whole lot of sense.
Tesla has several showrooms in the Chicago area but their service center is located in the cheap seats, many miles away from the showrooms.IMHO it'd be a pretty small service center for such a large metropolis and potential customer base. Paying top dollar for real estate in that neighborhood for something like a service center doesn't made a whole lot of sense.
probably going to look this way for a while as everything will be on the interior now.I drove past this morning, looks about the same as it did in the Labor Day pics above. Lots of workers in and around the building.
Most of their service centres seem to be only 4-6 bays. Not big.IMHO it'd be a pretty small service center for such a large metropolis and potential customer base. Paying top dollar for real estate in that neighborhood for something like a service center doesn't made a whole lot of sense.
I'm south of Louisville (KY) and this remains the nearest Rivian location to me of which I'm aware. (Actually was in Chicago over the summer for a while, and your pics saved me the trouble of seeking out the location as I knew there wasn't much to see yet.)Latest pics from last night. Sun is setting earlier these days and I had to hustle over there catch it while there was still daylight. Not many changes at this point so going forward I'll only post if there are any changes and/or I see an R1T/R1S in the area.
Yeah but wouldn't it be under construction by now? Chicago is sure to be a big market for Rivian.my guess is that they're going with a near suburb rather than city location.
Oh definitely, the implication was that any permitting was being done outside the city and that’s why it wasn’t showing up in the city database (or o was failing to find it but I looked for a while and would be surprised if I missed it).Yeah but wouldn't it be under construction by now? Chicago is sure to be a big market for Rivian.
I'm assuming that the Normal service center will cover Chicago for the beginning. No point in developing 2 centers so close right out of the gate.Almost entirely positive this won’t be the service center. The permits for the renovation (which are addressed to the Sangamon side for some reason in case anybody else wants to look them up too) don’t have any of the necessary conditions.
Given how far along the service centers are in other markets and the fact that I couldn’t find anything resembling a Chicago service center in the permit database (did find Lucid’s and several other dealer/brands’) my guess is that they're going with a near suburb rather than city location.