How? The economic activity there will almost if not entirely be shifted from elsewhere.•Increase in tax revenue
oh, well if you say so, QT representative.Vacant for four years, the Kassabaum/Session building would require more than $3 million to get it up to code to use as a business again, Gwen Keen, real estate project manager for QuikTrip in St. Louis, told the St. Louis County Planning Commission at a public hearing Monday.
“That does not include the property. That does not include any new business trying to fill it with equipment, or anything else in order to establish a new business in the building,” Keen said. “At the end of the day, the costs would far outweigh the value of the property and a new business.”
and why in the f*ck should anybody care that QT thinks they'll succeed in the area, WHICH ALREADY HAS THREE GAS STATIONS? how is that a justification? it's not the municipality's job to promote QT's success. gas stations aren't community assets. they're not like restaurants or retail. they're cancerous. it's absolutely justified to put a limit on them.Two neighbors speaking at the hearing questioned the value of adding another gas station to an area that already has three. But Keen said that market research showed that a QuikTrip would succeed in the area, even with the competition. QuikTrip is set to build another store 2 miles down Lemay Ferry Road near South County Center mall.
Yeah, probably.