UPDATE 3:27 p.m. Sept. 5, 2025 Korsten confirmed that MVP will open its full-service office Monday at 20294 N. John Wayne Parkway. For more information, call 520-766-4718 x6.

ORIGINAL STORY 2:22 p.m. June 30, 2025 Driver’s license and registration renewals will return to Maricopa. Just give it a couple more months.

Jan Kortsen, owner of Willcox-based Motor Vehicle Processing, confirmed this morning that her family-owned business will open a storefront offering third-party Motor Vehicle Division services this fall. 

The business will take over the former Arizona State Express Title & Registration office at the Maricopa Fiesta, which shuttered one month ago after 12 years, creating a gap in the city.  

Korsten said expanding her business into Maricopa feels like a homecoming.  

“I spent years in Stanfield, and it just kind of feels like I’m going home,” she told InMaricopa this morning. “I’m looking forward to being a part of the Maricopa community; I knew it before it was the Maricopa it is today.” 

Kortsen lived in Stanfield for a decade until 2000.  

“I knew the old Maricopa, when there was just a Texaco and a Dairy Queen,” she recalled. 

Kortsen opened the first MVP office in Willcox in 2010. Maricopa will be the company’s sixth location.  

“There was an opportunity when the current business decided to lock their doors and move on,” she said, adding that the plan is to “open up a third-party office as soon as possible.” 

The opportunity came after a paper sign was taped on the door of the Arizona State Express Title & Registration on June 2. The sign read, “This location is closed indefinitely,” and directed customers to find state-operated locations in Casa Grande, Chandler or Tempe.  

The third-party location had been serving Maricopa since 2013 and was known for its oddly placed tip jars. It averaged just one star on Yelp. 

In a phone call with InMaricopa this morning, businessman Lewis Green, who owned the State Express, said he would not comment on what led to the closure. He simply said, “The business was sold,” and the new owner would reopen it within 30 days. 

However, Kortsen said it may be at least two months until her team can start helping Maricopans with registration renewals, temporary permits or new driver’s licenses.  

“It’s very dependent on the state of Arizona. We have to meet certain requirements and there’s a process. It normally takes 60 days,” she said. 

That means the MVD-authorized office could open in early September. In the meantime, expect to see new signs and banners go up next month.  

Kortsen said she hopes the new location will be “a little more personable” and “inviting.” 

“We’re all about customer service, we truly are. We want to have plenty of staff so that we can help people and be friendly, fast and efficient,” she said. 

For more information about MVP and its services, visit the company’s website.