New Gen QuikTrip I believe. Not 100 percent sure b/c it's been a while since I've heard anything but that was the deal they were working on. Relo of the store down the street. Don't know what they'll do with their existing store

you sure about that QT only being opened for 5-6 years? maybe it was renovated but i thought its been there for a while...I know i used it every Sunday on my drives back to Jeff City when i worked there and that was 2009

and is that subway building actually a mixed use or just a real big subway?

QT is the last I heard, so that should pretty well substantiate that. More wasteful land use in our City by gas stations. If I remember right, the existing QT resulted in the demolition of a couple occupied apartment buildings, so now we will have a vacant auto oriented gas station where people were living not that long ago. And we wonder why our population continues to drop.

I know there's a new Generation 3 QT going in at Kingshighway and McCree, but i'd be a little surprised if they were replacing the one across from Uncle Bill's, as they just upgraded it to the 2.5 model with the FreshKitchen.

roger wyoming II wrote:^^ it is on the 2007 google streetview so its been there longer than i recall, but I believe matt is right that it was housing more recent than years and years ago. the subway on kingshighway has commercial office up top and the one in Soulard has residential.

Looking over at http://www.historicaerials.com/ it appears it was built in the time between the 2004 and 2005 images, so it's roughly 10 years old.



-RBB

I kind of hope they leave the other one standing and operational. Making a left to go south on Khighway from there is a b****. I'm assuming making a right out of the one at fyler will be just as annoying.

erina wrote:I kind of hope they leave the other one standing and operational. Making a left to go south on Khighway from there is a b****. I'm assuming making a right out of the one at fyler will be just as annoying.

Ooof! Is this sarcasm?

^^So you are telling me, that 'newer' QT right down the street, will be shuttered for a 'newest' location, a stones throw across the street? Rob Peter to pay Paul... Now the City has another vacancy on Kingshighway to fill, on the east side of KHWY. Nice........

$2.5M building permit application submitted for a gas station at 3296 S Kingshighway. A great complement to the gas station across the street. Ugh.

Is there anything residents can do to try to have the permit denied?

Idk, it's in a K. unrestricted zone. Contact the TGSNA and Ald Velazquez.

I do not know the business but at some point in time there was a feasibility discussion about this proposal  Is there enough traffic and expected increase in traffic   to support another gas station ?

I keep wondering with the transition to EVs at what point will investors and elected officials realize new gas stations are a bad investment. They're also a huge pain to redevelop because of the gas tanks. 

PeterXCV wrote: ↑

Mar 10, 2024

I keep wondering with the transition to EVs at what point will investors and elected officials realize new gas stations are a bad investment. They're also a huge pain to redevelop because of the gas tanks. 

^ Missouri set a record for most gallons of fuel sold in in the state in  2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017  ....despite better fuel milage and arrival of mass adaptions of EVs 

PeterXCV wrote: ↑

Mar 10, 2024

I keep wondering with the transition to EVs at what point will investors and elected officials realize new gas stations are a bad investment. They're also a huge pain to redevelop because of the gas tanks. 

And such redevelopment will be subsidized by tax payers. Likewise the taxpayers will absorb the true environmental costs of fossil fuel consumption and auto oriented transit as well as the public health and healthcare costs of all the garbage (booze, tobacco, scratch offs, junk food etc.) these merchants peddle, all the while mistreating their employees.

STL needs to adapt a fixed number medallion system for gas stations. It's simple, every existing gas station gets a medallion to operate. If somebody wants to build a new gas station, they need to buy the medallion off of another station. Perhaps even require environmental remediation of the old site before transfer can be completed.

If medallions go unsold for certain amount of time, (say three years) they disappear.

^I would love a system like that for gas stations in the city.