A tire service company is back in business in Knoxville, two weeks after its roof collapsed.

Raceway Tire and Exhaust has re-opened in a temporary location south of town; the site at 1574 Highway 14 is a quarter-mile south of the overpass…or about a mile and a half south of their old building, which is now being torn down in anticipation of being rebuilt.

Owner Travis Thompson tells KNIA/KRLS News ever since the cave-in, people from around the community have offered their help, and his own staff has gone beyond the call of duty to salvage their equipment and get the new shop ready.

“It’s been pretty amazing to see the number of people that have stepped up and done jobs that usually they don’t do; whether it’s putting tires away to building tire racks to moving equipment, whatever it is…the guys really stepped in and did a great job for us,” Thompson says.

Thompson gives particular credit to Mike Moats, who offered him the use of the property the day after the cave-in because he wanted the company to stay in operation.

He also credits Mollie Keitges, the previous tenant who was closing her fitness studio to take a new job in Des Moines, and vacated the property one week ago, just in time for Raceway Tire to get set up.