Car retailer Carvana plans to bring an inspection and reconditioning center to its existing ADESA Long Island wholesale auction site in Yaphank. Credit: John Roca
Online used-car retailer Carvana’s addition of an inspection and reconditioning center to its existing wholesale auction site in Yaphank will create about 100 new jobs, the company said.
The jobs will be in inspection, reconditioning and vehicle fulfillment at the Yaphank facility, called ADESA Long Island, Carvana said. The center will benefit Phoenix-based Carvana’s retail and wholesale operations, the company said.
"And what this will look like is a transition where new capabilities are brought to the site that drive, you know, additional job creation and new services and offerings for both our retail and wholesale customers," Christina Keiser, Carvana’s executive vice president of strategy, told Newsday on Monday.
The new operations in Yaphank will increase the pool of retail cars in the New York metro area, and allow vehicles to be delivered to customers more quickly, she said.
She said hiring of the 100 new employees started in August but declined to say when hiring is expected to be completed or how many employees were working at the Yaphank site before. The inspection and reconditioning center at the Yaphank facility started running in the third quarter of this year, she said.
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No new construction will take place at the ADESA Long Island site because the facility has enough space to hold the new operations, Keiser said.
That facility has 77,000 square feet split between two buildings and three lots, Carvana said.
Founded in 1989, ADESA U.S. is the second-largest used-auto physical auction business in the United States. Its auctions serve professional car buyers and sellers.
Carvana bought ADESA U.S. and its 56 auction locations in 32 states from KAR Global for $2.2 billion in 2022. The three ADESA auction locations in New York are in Buffalo, Syracuse and Yaphank.
Since the purchase in 2022, Carvana has integrated 16 inspection and reconditioning centers into ADESA sites, including one in Buffalo in April 2024. The Yaphank facility, which opened as an ADESA site more than 20 years ago, is the 10th site to get a Carvana inspection and recondition center this year.
Separate from the 16 ADESA sites with inspection and reconditioning centers, Carvana has 18 IRCs across the country.
Founded in 2013, Carvana is the largest online used-car retailer. All Carvana’s cars are sold online, but customers can choose to have their vehicles delivered to them or pick up their purchases at "car vending machines," which are towers containing vehicles.
The car vending machines are a signature marketing tool for Carvana.
Customers who go to the towers for pickups receive oversized coins that they drop into the machines to start the automated vending process, Carvana said.
Carvana’s only car vending machine in New York State opened on Long Island, in Uniondale, in 2023.
Tory N. Parrish covers retail and small business for Newsday. She has worked at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y.
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