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The New Jersey auto dealership management company All Pro Motors LLC is bringing its mix of retail expertise and National Football League star power to Southeast Michigan next year with new Nissan dealers expected to open in Dearborn and Clinton Township.
The company closed on the purchase of 6.7 acres of vacant land along M-59 near Elizabeth Road last week and will seek approval tonight to rezone the site before the Clinton Township board for an All Pro Nissan location, said Jeff Mills, a director at the company acting as site developer on that proposal.
The company expects to close soon on the purchase of a vacant former Pep Boys location along Michigan Avenue near Telegraph Road in Dearborn for a second, smaller Nissan location, he said.
All Pro, co-owned by New Jersey auto dealer Michael Saporito and former New York Giants linebackers Antonio Pierce and Jessie Armstead, will own and operate both Michigan dealerships, their first in the state, Mills said.
Terms of the Clinton Township land purchase from Stonegate Properties LLC of Arizona were not disclosed, although the property had been listed at $2.15 million in recent months.
All Pro also operates Englewood Cliffs Cadillac in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and Saporito and Armstead have also co-owned Hamilton Honda in Hamilton Township, N.J., since 2009.
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