by Western State Design | May 7, 2019
Southern California born and bred, Chad Caldwell has had an interesting and varied professional life, with past stints as a ski patroller, a logger, a server/bartender, and a solar salesperson. In the past several years, he has achieved success as a commercial real...
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by Western State Design | Apr 29, 2019
This article first appeared in PlanetLaundry magazine. It is being reprinted with the permission of the Coin Laundry Association. DemographicStory_plmag_April19...
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by Western State Design | Mar 28, 2019
Western State Design (WSD) is pleased to announce it received Dexter Laundry’s 2018 “#1 in Dexter Sales Worldwide” award, for the 12th consecutive year at Dexter’s annual conference in Waikiki, Hawaii, on March 18, 2019. WSD also received the 2018 “Chairman’s Award”...
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by Western State Design | Mar 12, 2019
Commercial Laundry Distributor, Western State Design (WSD), is pleased to announce that it will be hosting service schools for vended and coin laundry operators to learn best practices for optimal operation and maintenance of Dexter Laundry Equipment. The training...
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by Western State Design | Feb 20, 2019
This article first appeared in PlanetLaundry magazine. It is being reprinted with the permission of the Coin Laundry Association. In southern California, owner Art Jaeger entered the vended laundry industry by building two stores simultaneously. And, in Houston,...
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by Western State Design | Nov 14, 2018
While the drought state of emergency is over for the time being, water conservation remains a way of life in California. The prolonged drought prompted local water agencies to embark on a plan of costly upgrades to their aging infrastructure in an effort to maintain a...
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by Western State Design | Nov 2, 2018
Recently, the Dominican Sisters decided to replace the Milnor commercial washing machines they had been operating for nearly 40 years at their historic mission in San Jose. What did they replace them with? New Milnor washing machines, of course. The Dominican Sisters...
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by Western State Design | Oct 17, 2018
David and Dave Stewart are a father-and-son team that entered into the vended laundry business a few years back, designing and building a new laundromat, Main Street Laundry, on some property they owned in Santa Paula, CA. They were so successful with their first...
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by Western State Design | Oct 10, 2018
Stories about successful Los Angeles-based filmmakers are not that uncommon, but here’s one with an interesting twist that might make a good movie someday: ‘guy and his wife decide to find a more interesting investment vehicle than a 401K, so they invest in a local...
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by Western State Design | Sep 20, 2018
If you’re going to build and run a chain of local laundromats, you may as well make them as appealing, efficient, and customer-friendly as you possibly can, because, otherwise, what’s the point? Clearly, that’s the mindset of the Grande Laundry Places’ owner, and area...
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