Up until about three years ago, the car wash industry wasn't particularly appealing to investors. Private equity firms owned approximately 1% of the nation's 65,000 total car washes and 2% of the nation's roughly 17,000 conveyor-style car washes as of June 2019, according to data from one of the industry's specialized brokerages, New York-based Car Wash Advisory LLC. In the next five years, some industry advisers expect that to change. “We’re nearing the basket tipping point, but there is still a ton of runway to go,” BlackArch Partners LP managing director John Conklin said. “If I think about car wash
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