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It's from movie scene and there are those dialogues.
'This used to be A Appliance Manufacturing. This sits on a 14-acre lot. This floor alone, 20,000 square feet. It could easily be converted into an industrial space, even have an eight-car tow up.' And that's the all dialogues related.
In this sentence, 'It' means a big building and I wonder what 'an eight-car tow up' means. Please let me know what it means.
Thank you!
As this is from a movie script, it isn't an actual expert talking, but a writer who is trying to sound like an actual expert, and some things are wrong.
I think that here the writer is confusing the hydraulic lifts that a vehicle repair shop will have to raise cars when fixing the underside, with the idea of towing cars to the garage, and has coined the unidiomatic phrase "tow-up".
The image that is probably intended is "space to work on 8 cars at the same time" so you could have a pretty big and busy repair shop in that space.
The phrase would be "8-car tow-up" (not cars), and there are other forms of unidiomatic expression in the quote, (Such as "'This' sits on..." which suggest to me that either you have misquoted, or the writer was not a native English speaker.
