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Kelly Automotive Group

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Kelly FIAT Moves Down the Road and Out of Town

Brian Kelly's FIAT dealership completed the move from Danvers last week and is now located at the former Lincoln-Mercury dealership across from the Northshore Mall in Peabody.

The former home of North Shore Lincoln-Mercury now has sporty little European cars filling the lot. And Kelly FIAT of Peabody is finally located in Peabody. Brian Kelly, of Kelly Automotive Group, is nearly done reshuffling and expanding his dealerships along Route 114. The FIAT dealership completed the move down the road last week from 72 Andover St. in Danvers to 1 Cross St. in Peabody and Kelly's Volkswagen dealership will relocate as well. The site at 72 Andover St., which is under construction, will become the new home of Kelly's Volkswagen with a lot for new cars, one for used vehicles and a wind turbine atop the building to generate electricity to recharge cars and keep the lights on inside. The Volkswagen dealership is in the midst…

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Auto Dealership to Build Town's First Wind Turbine

A new wind turbine will go on top of a new car dealership building now under construction along Route 114.

Danvers could be getting its first electric-producing wind turbine next summer at a Route 114 car dealership. The Zoning Board on Monday approved plans to put a turbine on top of the new Kelly Volkswagen dealership at 72-74 Andover St. While there is nowhere in the Danvers zoning bylaw that regulates wind turbines, attorney Nancy McCann said that the turbine will conform to the sections of the bylaws regulating antenna height. “It is something that is a growing trend,” she said of the turbine. The electricity generated from the turbine will power the service area lighting in the building and may also power the site lighting, depending on the bulb fixtures, she said. It will also be used to recharge electric cars, she said. It will not go …

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

What's Going Where? Volkwagen, Fiat To Change Locations

Kelly Automotive Group plans to construct a new Volkswagen dealership, and move Fiat to a proposed location in Peabody.

Danvers-based Kelly Automotive is in the midst of expansion plans to its current slate of dealerships along Route 114, and with a thumbs up from the town's Planning Board last week, the group is one step closer. Kelly Automotive's plan is to demolish their existing Fiat dealership and will construct the Volkswagen dealership in its place. Town Planner Kate Day told the Boston Globe, the dealership will be a 32,177 square foot building on the 4.7-acre site. Meanwhile, the vacant Borders Books & Music building on Route 114, which was purchased by Brian Kelly in December, may become the new home of Kelly Fiat , the Salem News reported. Kelly told the Salem News that he's exploring whether the existing buliding at 151 Andover St. -- Borders…

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