Apex Mesa was the group's first acquisition outside of the founding Tempe location. James Caldwell purchased the existing 8-bay shop from a retiring owner in March 2009 for $720,000, including the building and the going-concern. Five of the prior owner's seven technicians stayed with the new ownership; two ASE-certified hires from the Camelback dealer group rounded out the bay roster.
Mesa serves the working-family West-Mesa customer base and the heaviest concentration of heavy-duty commercial fleet vehicles in the group. The Mesa Fleet Solutions bay block was the original Fleet Solutions facility when the division launched in 2017 — Ram 3500, F-350 Super Duty, Ford E-350 box trucks, and Sprinter cargo vans all route to Mesa for the heavier-duty diagnostic and repair work.
Mesa location manager
Sandra Okafor is the Mesa location manager. She joined Apex in 2017 as a service writer at Tempe, was promoted to Mesa foreman in 2020, and took the location manager role in 2022. Sandra holds ASE Master certification and earned her Bachelor of Science in Automotive Management from Northwood University in 2014 before working four years in the dealer-group service-drive system in Tucson.