Chabill’s Tire and Auto Service is breaking ground on its third Baton Rouge area location today, with hopes of having the center open by the end of July, says owner Charley Gowland.
Gowland purchased a roughly one-acre site at 10404 Burbank Drive—near the new Walmart Supercenter—last fall for $823,480, on which the new tire and auto center is being built. The new location will measure roughly 7,200 square feet and cost $850,000 to develop, according to a plan review application filed with the city-parish Department of Public Works.
The Burbank location will be the 15th total in Louisiana for the Morgan City-based business, and Gowland says the plan is to add about a store per year in the Baton Rouge area. The first Chabill’s opened here in early 2013 at 13887 Coursey Blvd., and a second location opened the following year at 13485 La. 73 in Prairieville.
“When we decided to go into the Baton Rouge market we knew it would take multiple stores to really get our name out there and be successful,” Gowland says. “So, we think we’ll probably have seven or eight in the market eventually. The next one will probably be in Port Allen or somewhere on the west side of the river.”
—Steve Sanoski
