NEW CONSTRUCTION

By: DENNIS WYATT

A new home for Manteca AAA office?

One of the three spaces being created in a 10,660-sqaure-foot retail building being pursued at 190 Commerce Drive between Bank of the West and America’s Tire Store  will be the new home of the Manteca AAA (American Automobile Association).

Plans for the $890,400 building that will back up to Commerce Drive with spacing for a drive thru lane between the back of the structure and the sidewalk with the front facing east are now being reviewed by the City of Manteca.

Jones Lang LaSalle Brokerage lists the largest available space as being leased to AAA that has had an office on Trevino Avenue in West Manteca since 1990.

The firm has indicated they are negotiating with an Asian food drive thru and are still working on filling the third space.

When the building is finished it will complete the transformation of the former Tradeway Chevrolet  dealership site. Before it was torn down more than 15 years ago when its new location on Spreckels Avenue (now J&M Equipment) was built, it advertised itself as the ugliest dealership around complete with radio commercials of a dog howling at the end with the voice over going “Yes, it’s that ugly.”

Given the basic 1955 construction that may have been a little generous.

The old Tradeway dealership — owned by the late Bill Sexton and his son, the late Jerry Sexton — bordered Yosemite Avenue and Highway 99 as well as what is today Historical Plaza Way and Commerce Drive.

It currently has the highest concentration of food/drink (aka Starbucks, Jamba Juice) in Manteca.

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