Brandon Steven acquires a couple new dealerships and adds to his remodeling plans
In January, Brandon Steven discussed creating what’s “going to be a little luxury corner” where he already has dealerships on East Kellogg between Rock Road and Webb Road.
He reported that his plans include a new $4 million Cadillac dealership where Eddy’s Lincoln currently is and that Lincoln is moving to the 40,000-square-foot former Carpenters Training Center of Wichita building on five acres just west of there along with his Moxie Hot Rods brand and one other dealership.
At the time, he didn’t name that other dealership, but now he revealed that it is Infiniti.
Last week, Steven closed on his purchase of his late third cousin Mike Steven’s Infiniti and Volkswagen dealerships and has renamed them Eddy’s Infiniti and Eddy’s Volkswagen.
“A lot’s going to change,” he said.
Steven is demolishing the existing Infiniti dealership at the southeast corner of Kellogg and Greenwich to “make it one big beautiful lot” for Eddy’s Volkswagen.
“That’s just such a good piece of property,” Steven said.
However, he said the Volkswagen dealership’s lot is “kind of jammed up now” since it is divided into three areas.
In addition to making the lot better and expanding a service drive there, Steven is remodeling the Volkswagen store.
“I’m going to do a complete remodel,” he said. “We’re going to modernize it.”
That includes making the dealership fully compliant with Volkswagen’s electric vehicle technology.
“Volkswagen is ahead of the game,” Steven said of the technology.
The dealership hasn’t been able to stock all of Volkswagen’s electric vehicle models because it didn’t have everything to support them. Now, it will.
“We’re going to build the team quite a bit,” Steven said.
He said he’ll probably double the staff and train them on all modifications for electric vehicles.
Combined, all of Steven’s remodeling projects are not quite $20 million.
He expects all the work to be completed sometime in 2024.
So what will he do then?
“Stay tuned.”
