14 thoughts on “Demolition Underway at Site of New Mercedes Dealership on Route 1 in New Rochelle”

  2. re: sales tax
    Yes Bob, I was aware, thank you..but I don’t see “The GAP” knocking any doors down! Also, a Mercedes dealership, with a new building, has to be better than that eyesore of an empty building. Well, better, I guess, except for “Knitter”.

  3. Children?
    Knitter,
    It is a construction site! Are they supposed to stop building or improving the area because of a bus stop? Where did you grow up as a kid? In a bubble?
    Whatever the temporary nconvenience, stop complaining! This business may generate enough sales tax to help get the bathrooms back open at the train station someday, which, you seem so concerned about.

    1. Children
      Actually, I grew up in New Rochelle not in a bubble. If you lived in this neighborhood you might be able to understand what is going on.

      As far as the restrooms are concerned, that is only a small part of the problem.

      Perhaps you are living in a bubble-do you use the train station. The children that take the bus from my neighborhood are more important than any car dealership.

      The extra unaccounted for money from the parking garage will handle the restrooms.

      1. Ok, so you live there…
        Still…you are no different than anyone else, in any neighborhood. You are the typical “Not in my backyard” resident. If it bothers you so much, you shouldn’t live near an area zoned for commercial business. Or, move to Larchmont and use their bathrooms (Just not near Post Road, you know, a commercial zone)
        As far as the train station, closing it is the only thing the city has done right lately. Yes, I use it, every day, and I wouldn’t use the bathroom there no matter how bad nature called. It was, and has been, a health hazard for the past 15 years! A S*^thole(no pun intended). The city would be wise to leave it closed until they can do what the library did. However long that takes.

    2. sales tax on car sales
      You are aware that sales tax on cars is paid where the buyer lives not where the car is sold, right?

      For that reason, having car dealerships as commercial tenants as opposed to say retail stories is considered undesirable — you get all those problems associated with car dealership activity but only a small fraction of the total sales tax revenue.

      Just checking to make sure you realize that the sales tax per square foot generated for the City is very low on a car dealership relative to other types of businesses.

      1. sales tax
        You have that right, also the old dealer ship probably generated more tax for NR
        then the new Mercedes dealership. The only reason they came to New Rochelle was because Larchmont would not let them open on Sunday.

      2. Agreed, however…
        What we would all want and what we end up with are two different things. We need retail, no doubt. But, this dealership SHOULD be an improvement on what was there.

      4. Car dealership in New Rochelle
        We need more car dealerships in New Rochelle,
        a few years ago there were seventeen of them and now there are only six going on seven.
        These dealerships generate more sales tax than all retail stores in Main Street and in North Ave.
        and they pay very high property taxes.
        Supermarket is big but they do not generate sales tax.

      5. any facts to back any of this up?
        for example, why would a car dealership pay higher property taxes than a deli or a bank located on the same parcel?

      6. Taxes on car dealerships
        Beside office space and showroom,car dealers use
        empty land around their buildings to park the cars in stock,empty land pay less real estate taxes.
        Car dealer facilities are larger than banks and delies,and employs more people than a bank or a deli
        and pays better salaries.
        I am not a car dealer.

      7. Good grief.
        I provided some examples which seems to have confused you so let me make it simpler for you. If you have a hardware store that is 5,000 square feet sitting on a parcel that is 10,000 square feet where the rest of the space is parking and you compare that to a car dealer that has a building of 5,000 square feet sitting on a parcel that is 10,000 square feet, the two would pay the SAME property taxes, all other things being equal. There is no tax law that says car dealerships pay higher property taxes than some other use of the same space, right?

  4. New Car Dealership
    It was not so funny for the families living in back of this mess.

    I wonder if this went on while the children were waiting for their school bus.

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