Metro Motor Towing is looking to open another towing office and storage lot in Alexandria.
The 14,250-square-foot property at 3106 Colvin Street in the city’s Taylor Run neighborhood is just off Duke Street and was previously home to Road Res-Q. Metro Motor Towing, which operates repair shops and tow lots at multiple locations in the city, D.C., and Maryland, is looking to operate at the property 24 hours a day with a parking capacity of 20 vehicles.
According to the special application going to the Planning Commission next month:
Existing building will be used for Towing Operations such as towing admin work, billing, dispatch, driver meetings, training. Will also be used for maintaining tow trucks with our two bays. A typical 24 hour period will have vehicles that are towed in from our various relationships via insurance companies, property management relationships, retail customers calling in for roadside assistance if their vehicle breaks down and will need a place to store their vehicles until final destination instructions…
Car owners will potentially come to the property from time to time but not in the middle of the night, only our drivers will be dropping off in the middle of the night whether from accident calls from insurance companies, property management relationships but will be closed to patrons, noise will be limited by our drivers using best industry safety practices, back up alarms are somewhat of a regulated practice but driver’s will limit the length they go on as best a possible without risking any safety practices, this lot is surrounded by only commercial businesses and behind a railroad track, it does not have any surrounding residential residents nearby…
