A demonstrated initial pass at a comparable acquisition program for Chris’s six official primary territory lanes—Louisville, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida East Coast, Chattanooga and Nashville—grounded in confirmed current-store anchors, named prospect research and a repeatable diligence cadence.
This demonstrated initial pass uses mapped Sun Auto Tire & Service (SATS) locations as confirmed current-store anchors. Candidate eligibility still requires an approved anchor and a measured route of approximately 30 road miles or less; approved greenfield (GF) anchors will be added when Sun supplies them.
Official primary territory. Kentucky current-store anchors are mapped elsewhere in the state; Louisville requires an approved nearby or GF anchor before the small-operator cohort is activated.
The approved beta cluster is Central Ohio / Columbus–Licking County. Measured road-mile eligibility still applies to each candidate.
The approved beta cluster is the Piedmont Triad. Existing Wilmington/demo coverage remains illustrative rather than the beta target lane.
The approved beta corridor runs from Northeast Florida through Volusia County, with measured route eligibility applied to each candidate.
A confirmed current-store anchor is mapped in Chattanooga; measured road-distance eligibility still applies to each candidate.
Hendersonville and Murfreesboro are the approved nearby beta anchors. Nashville remains a calibration lane, and each candidate still requires route validation.
The map now shows only the approved acquisition program: Central Ohio / Columbus–Licking County, the North Carolina Piedmont Triad, Florida East Coast from Northeast Florida through Volusia County, Chattanooga, Nashville and the Louisville hold lane. Legacy Wilmington, Greenville, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Myrtle Beach and Tallahassee target markers have been removed.
Map basis: 608 public-locator records establish the current-store footprint. The approved 35-anchor set governs five activated acquisition lanes; only those selected anchors can support road-mile eligibility. Louisville is shown as a hold lane pending an approved nearby/GF anchor or chain-only treatment. The public-locator count can differ from headline “575+” network language as locations open, close, redirect or remain exposed by city pages.
These pages follow Chris Garman’s approved list and expose the Stage-0 discovery universe by lane. They do not claim qualified targets: company consolidation, selected-anchor road routing, Sun-history matching and critical-gate verification still determine eligibility.
Public Sun locator pages currently expose store-level records across 28 states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, TN, TX, VA and WA. CA and adjacent western stores remain included inside the Current Sun stores layer; SC remains acquisition whitespace in this map layer.
The acquisition strategy should avoid generic national whitespace and instead create visible operating clusters that a future buyer can underwrite: leadership depth, repeatable integration, regional purchasing leverage and same-store growth playbooks.
Defensible recurring demand, inspection/maintenance attach, and brand translatability.
Platformable density with successor, systems and recruiting upside.
Vehicle miles, household formation and high repeat-service frequency.
Bay count, lease control, technician retention and POS/data extractability.
The homepage now demonstrates the common starting point: confirmed current-store anchors, Chris’s six priority lanes, comparable target screens and evidence-first dispositions. A formal Sun-versus-Helix run begins after Sun supplies history data, resolves Louisville/GF treatment and the approved anchors are converted into measured road-distance cohorts.
Use the approved 35-location beta set, add approved GF IDs and addresses, resolve Louisville treatment and load Sun’s historical review data.
For singles and small multi-units, calculate road distance from confirmed anchors before identity resolution, market screening or fit scoring. Do not substitute straight-line proximity.
Freeze the same territory-and-anchor cohort for Sun and Helix, preserve known history, then compare Pass, Watch, Exclude and top-decile outcomes without fabricated results.
Use the existing Nashville screen and Chris’s dispositions to calibrate rules and reviewer behavior. Nearby confirmed current-store anchors establish context; the selected Nashville comparison cohort still requires route validation.
The approved beta markets are Central Ohio / Columbus–Licking County, the Piedmont Triad and Northeast Florida through Volusia County. Existing legacy research pages remain supporting coverage, not automatic Pass records.
Previously referenced 6-, 10- or 12-unit chains may be considered outside the default radius only through a recorded approval path; no automatic exception is implied.
Eligible for screening only inside a validated existing market or measured approximately ≤30 road miles from a confirmed SATS/approved GF anchor.
Operators outside the default radius require explicit chain-level approval. Prior 6/10/12-unit references describe an exception path, not automatic eligibility.
After geography: apply $1.8M+ sales, mix, no-used-tire, bays, footprint, tire capacity, physical, demographic, ownership and history gates.
The previous legacy-market prospect board has been removed from the current presentation. Chris’s approved program begins with 9,816 Stage-0 location records across five activated lanes plus Louisville hold. No target-level top 10% is claimed until consolidation, road routing, Sun-history matching and critical-gate verification are complete.
| Territory | Approved anchors | Stage-0 raw locations | Current treatment | Next decision stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Ohio / Columbus–Licking County | 10 | 2,022 | Unqualified / Verify | Consolidate companies, assign selected anchors and measure driving routes. |
| North Carolina Piedmont Triad | 7 | 1,938 | Unqualified / Verify | Consolidate companies, assign selected anchors and measure driving routes. |
| Florida East Coast — Northeast Florida through Volusia | 15 | 2,185 | Unqualified / Verify | Consolidate companies, route-test and preserve Florida-specific site exceptions. |
| Chattanooga — Hixson Pike | 1 | 816 | Unqualified / Verify | Assign the Hixson Pike anchor, measure driving routes and apply hard gates. |
| Nashville — Hendersonville + Murfreesboro | 2 | 1,685 | Unqualified / Verify | Assign the appropriate anchor, measure driving routes and reconcile Sun history. |
| Louisville Hold | 0 | 1,170 | Hold | Supply an approved nearby/GF anchor or confirm chain-only treatment. |
Extract exact Sun stores, geocode targets, append reviews, bay counts, owner names, SOS records, property data and competitor density.
Rank platform vs tuck-in candidates, define no-go filters, and approve first 25 outreach accounts by market.
Run warm intro, letter, call and field-visit motion with tailored rationale by market and operator archetype.
Update pipeline stage, diligence blockers, integration assumptions, and density maps so the exit story is evidence-backed.
The confirmed current-store anchor layer and initial prospect screens show the comparable workflow. Use the approved anchor and market framework to validate road-mile eligibility and apply the preserved fit criteria across Chris’s six territories.