Content area
Full Text
BINGHAMTON - Auto dealers in the Southern Tier and Northern Pennsylvania have a new stop on the auction circuit. Southern Tier Auto Auction, LLC held its first vehicle auction Nov. 3.
Former auto-parts store owner Richard Harrison secured an 11,000-square-foot facility for the area's first auto auction. Harrison brought car dealer Charles Marini along as vice president of the venture. Before
the auction opened, vehicle dealers had to travel west to Waverly or north to Onondaga County to attend an auction, says John Klepfer, comptroller for Southern Tier Auto Auction. Located at 26 Track Drive in the Conklin Industrial Park off Route 81 exit 3, Southern Tier Auto Auction employs 15 and has approximately 20 part-time workers who help out on auction night.
"Our area needed an auto auction," says Klepfer.
Auto dealers buy and sell cars at weekly auctions held across the state. The dealers typically attend...