Kansas City Transit Irony Emerges: Car Dealership Endures Along Streetcar Route

An AWESOME TKC READER shares an apt marketing suggestion for this biz and life along this route: 

"Take the toy train to buy a car!"

Here's the damage and even more Midtown Kansas City irony . . .

"The North Kansas City-based company, led by owner and CEO Dan Oakes, will rebrand the dealership Oakes Buick GMC. The 3200 Main St. property joins three other locations: Oakes Mitsubishi in Kansas City, Kansas; Oakes Kia in North Kansas City; and Oakes Ford in Pleasanton, Kansas, according to a release from the company."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Oakes Auto buys dealership at 3200 Main along coming streetcar extension - Kansas City Business Journal

Oakes Auto Group buys the dealership at 3200 Main St., along the southern streetcar extension. The North Kansas City company now has four dealership locations.