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While developers and investors hold their breath to see if Wal-Mart will buy Eastwood Mall, a Columbus, Ga., company likes the retail area enough - just as it is - to build a $2 million car wash.
Beckway Systems will build its 22nd Goo-Goo CarWash at the site of the abandoned Denny's restaurant at Crestwood and Oporto-Madrid boulevards.
CEO Lamar Beck says he also plans to build a $2.4 million car wash on U.S. Highway 280 near Valleydale Road and a $2 million facility in Russville.
All three will be built and operational this year.
Beck says he is bringing a new concept to Birmingham: automated, three-minute full car washes for...