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Bloomfield Township, Oleshansky left
town for film school in Ithaca, N.Y. He
then moved to Los Angeles to attend law
school and, ultimately, became an enter-
tainment attorney.
Oleshansky worked for a law firm in
L.A., but ended up in the marketing side
of the business, working for toy com-
panies doing licensing and deals with
studios. He and his wife, Alison, decided
not to raise their children in L.A. and
they headed east in 2004. Oleshansky
joined Big Productions in Royal Oak, a
marketing agency focused on the health
care industry.
He started as chief operating offi-
cer and eventually became a partner
and CEO, helping grow the company
from seven people to 150 in four years.
In 2008, the company was acquired
by media conglomerate Meredith
Corporation. Oleshansky continued on
with the new owners for four years.
"When I ultimately decided to leave,
I was looking for something tied to my
passion for cars, but I didn't want to
work for a dealership or car company,"
he said. "I thought about creating a
product for the enthusiast market. I was
always fascinated by the Woodward
Dream Cruise.
"Metro Detroit has the largest con-
centration of classic cars in the world,
by far. People have cars in their garages,
their family's garages, storage centers,
warehouses and businesses. But no one
has created a place for these enthusiasts
to congregate as well as to store their
vehicles:"

THE CONCEPT
Oleshansky did his research, visiting
auto-related destinations around the
world, including racetracks, country club
tracks, auto communities where suppli-
ers have offices, museums and theme
parks.
"Then I came across car condomini-
ums, which I had never heard of before
he said. "In Europe, they're very big
because they don't have garages to begin
with; and they need a place to keep a
second or third car. And, I discovered
they were successfully being developed
in other cities in the -Lig'
His idea was to bring this storage solu-
tion concept to Detroit "I thought this
was a home run. Everybody's got a car
tucked away here it seems:' he said.
He began looking for a property more
than three years ago. "I was looking for
something on Woodward, with no luck.
Everything was too expensive or not
zoned properly:'
Then a friend, Matt Zurbrick (who
now works on the Ml Concourse team),
alerted him that a unique property had
just became available on Woodward,
north of Square Lake. "I drove up here
and said, 'Wow, this is massive"
But it wasn't just a matter of buying
the property. Because it was a former
General Motors factory transferred into
a government trust as part of the GM
bankruptcy, he had to pitch his idea to
the trust board and meet seven criteria,
including eliminating blight, increasing
tax revenue and creating jobs, among
other things.

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