{"id":395586,"date":"2026-08-02T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395586\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:47:24","slug":"classic-car-dealership-streetside-classics-to-open-in-katy-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395586\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic car dealership Streetside Classics to open in Katy this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streetside Classics, founded in 2008 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsideclassics.com\/about\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">North Carolina<\/a>, is expanding its reach to the Houston area with a 56,000-square-foot showroom. The facility will house 260 to 300 cars for sale and for admiring.<\/p>\n<p>The dealership, at 500 Commerce Parkway in Katy, will open sometime during the final\u00a0three months of this year, said\u00a0Derek Love, the dealership&#8217;s marketing and technology manager.<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, the company says it provides vintage car enthusiasts\u00a0with\u00a0an alternative to buying at auctions or through private sellers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we started Streetside, we committed to a customer-first philosophy in an industry that desperately needed it,&#8221; said Donna Mueller, the dealership&#8217;s co-founder and chairwoman, in a news release. &#8220;We hope to be a hub for the growing enthusiast community by hosting car shows, welcoming car clubs, and always being a place where you can come see that car your dad had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love said Streetside Classics had been looking at opening in the\u00a0Houston market since 2019 because of the city&#8217;s car culture and the variety of car enthusiast communities in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Katy location will mark\u00a0Streetside Classics&#8217; seventh facility across the nation, including in Atlanta, Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Love said the company chose to open its new Katy facility in an area with potential clients who &#8220;grew up with classic cars, or their family, their dad or their grandpa had one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s kind of our clientele,&#8221; Love said. &#8220;They&#8217;re looking to relive that, or they&#8217;ve always seen it and wanted to experience it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The dealership is already accepting applications for those looking to consign their cars. That means anyone looking to sell a vintage car can give\u00a0Streetside Classics permission to sell the car while maintaining ownership of it until it&#8217;s sold, and then splitting the profit with the dealership.<\/p>\n<p>Love said most of the cars Streetside Classics has in in its inventory nationally are on consignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streetside Classics, founded in 2008 in North Carolina, is expanding its reach to the Houston area with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-395586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}