LV company moving to Beltway location

Friday, Feb. 16, 2001 | 11:09 a.m.

The city's largest taxi company is moving to a roomier site off the Interstate 215 beltway.

Yellow Checker Star Transportation, which has a fleet of more than 550 taxicabs, limousines and buses under five separate corporations, will move to a 40-acre site north of the freeway and west of Decatur Boulevard. A 65,000-square-foot maintenance and administration building is planned at that location.

Jack Owens, general manager of the companies, said bids would be solicited in the spring, but a construction starting and completion date have not been determined.

Owens said the companies need more room and will move out of their 14-acre site on West Tompkins Avenue near Valley View Boulevard. The company plans to sell the existing site, but doesn't have a buyer yet.

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