WASHINGTON — Enterprise Rent-A-Car hit a milestone this week: The car rental company has opened it’s 10,000th global location — and it is on Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland.
It is Enterprise’s 100th location in Maryland, and it’s 172nd location in the greater Washington region. It also recently opened locations in Hagerstown, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia.
Enterprise, which also owns National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car, has about 2,000 employees in the Washington area.
The location, at 702 Rockville Pike, occupies a 2,500-square-foot building that sat vacant for seven years.
Enterprise dates back to one of the first auto leasing companies, then called Executive Leasing Company, which opened in St. Louis in 1957 with just seven vehicles.
It changed its name in 1969 to Enterprise.
Founder Jack Taylor, a Cadillac dealership salesman and a World War II veteran, named the company after the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, on which he served.
Taylor passed away in 2016, at the age of 94.
