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AUTOHAUS PRESTIGE
AUTOHAUS PRESTIGE TEAMED UP WITH LOWBAKE TO CREATE THIS STUNNING DEALER SHOP IN SILVERWATER, SYDNEY.
UTOHAUS PRESTIGE’S GENERAL MANAGER DAVID
Butler was already running a successful dealer shop in Five Dock specialising in Audi and Lam- borghini. Autohaus Five Dock is part of the dealer group Autosports which owns over 50 luxury car dealerships and six bodyshops. The company was found-
ed in 2006 and floated on the stock exchange in 2016. When Autosports bought BMW Canterbury in Syd- ney a couple of years ago there was the option for a BMW bodyshop. BMW was keen to keep the shop in the PMA and that meant finding another location for the Audi, Lamborghini and now Bentley badges Butler also has to manage being repaired. Once the Silverwa- ter site was found, Butler immediately reached out to Mark Williams and his team at Lowbake for the work- shop design and to John Bates at United Project Man- agement who is responsible for the fit outs at many of
the dealerships, for the offices and customer area. Butler, originally from the UK, has 20 years of in- dustry experience and seven years with Autohaus. He had some ideas of what to do with the space and Mark Williams took him on tours of a variety of shops – in- cluding Captial SMART to observe simplicity in layout
– before they got to the drawing board.
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