Site selection is the most critical step in developing a new carwash. The site's demographics, accessibility and configuration must work together to attract the critical mass of customers required to support the level of investment needed to develop the site and generate a reasonable rate of return. If they don't, the investor should look elsewhere for a more suitable site. Analyzing a site's potential is a combination of science and art, and your Mark VII distributor can help you during that process.

To get you started and give you a rough idea of a site's potential, we've provided you with a simple Site Selection Tool. It assigns point values to a variety of site parameters and calculates a total score that you can compare to a set of guidelines describing the relative potential of the site. Just click on the link at left to download the spreadsheet and begin using the tool.