Plans for a new Tesla service center and sales showroom on Veterans Boulevard in Redwood City have hit a dead end.
The electric carmaker’s 23,000-square-foot proposal would have occupied the former home of Crunch Fitness gym and Chef Peking Chinese restaurant west of Highway 101. The project and its rezone request was OK’d by the Planning Commission in May, but Tesla later changed its mind about the sales showroom component of the proposal before it could go before the City Council for final approval.
“After the Planning Commission meeting, they said we only want a service center, not sales and we said we can’t support that,” said Assistant City Manager Aaron Aknin. “It has to be extraordinary circumstances to do a rezone and the service station didn’t meet that criteria.”
Aknin said there are currently no new plans for 515 Veterans Blvd., but there was “a lot” of interest in the property when Tesla submitted its application.
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