NAPA Auto Parts Store, Wildcat Road: 2000s 6 comments
I don't go to auto parts stores too often. I generally regard cars as a "hardware problem" that a software guy doesn't deal with too well though certainly I've bought the odd gas-cap or the like over the years. This particular shop had a bit of an out-of-the-way location; it was on "Wildcat Road", which is what Rosewood Drive becomes after it crosses Garners Ferry. This is behind the old K-Mart and its associated, dying strip mall (site of one of the locations of Robo's Video Arcade many years ago). I don't know what happened to it -- it wasn't a chain-wide thing as there are still several NAPA stores in town. I don't know what will happen to the lot, though it does appear to come with its own radio tower.
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Dennis
12 Oct 08 at 11:42 am
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Wow, that's longer than I thought!
ted
12 Oct 08 at 1:37 pm
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I poked around in the Richland County property tax records and since NAPA closed this place has traded hands several times between cel phone companies and holding companies owned by Verizon. I guess they have some future plan for it. That tower in the back is not a cel phone tower is it? I think it was the old-fashioned radio dispatch for the NAPA delivery trucks.
Dennis
17 Oct 08 at 9:28 am
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I thought it was a dispatch tower as well, but when I saw the place again, from a distance, a few days ago, I said to myself, "You know, that looks like a cell tower", so I guess it is. That explains the verizon sign on the door too.
ted
17 Oct 08 at 11:46 am
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Just saw that the NAPA on Millwood is now closed.
ChiefDanGeorge
2 Mar 09 at 5:37 pm
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Just a guess: When Bell-Atlantic Mobile (now Verizon) put the tower up (@'94/'95), they also got the property that the parts store was on, and just closed it.
badger
3 Mar 09 at 9:30 am
I drive by this place often and always wonder what the story is. How can the owners afford to let it sit empty for what, 15 years least?