The Starke County Chamber of Commerce presented a special award to a longtime member during last week’s awards banquet. Until recently George Mammarella owned and operated Economy Auto Sales in Knox for several years. In 2012 he was chosen Independent Dealer of the Year by the Indiana Independent Auto Dealers Association.
Since 1989 the Mammarella family prided itself on offering in-house financing for vehicles and financing a customer’s future, not their past. The familiy-owned, buy-here, pay-here used car lot was also voted the #1 Used Car Lot in Starke County the last six years in a row by the Reader’s Choice Awards.
Mammarella recently closed the business and has the building listed for sale.
In addition to running Economy Auto, Mammarella is also active in the Starke County Youth Club, the North Judson Masonic Lodge and serves on the Kankakee Valley Broadcasting Board of Directors.
