Kwik Star: bigger and better
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The Kwik Star convenience store at 15th Street and Second Avenue North is seen here Tuesday evening. It will be replaced with a larger, 7,320 square foot store in a project scheduled for next year. The city’s Plan and Zoning Commission recommended zoning and future land use changes to accommodate the store.
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The Kwik Star convenience store at 15th Street and Second Avenue North is seen here Tuesday evening. It will be replaced with a larger, 7,320 square foot store in a project scheduled for next year. The city’s Plan and Zoning Commission recommended zoning and future land use changes to accommodate the store.
The Kwik Star convenience store at Second Avenue North and 15th Street will be replaced by a new larger, version in a project scheduled for this year.
The new store will measure 7,320 square feet, according to information presented to the city’s Plan and Zoning Commission. It will have eight fuel pumps.
The company has already purchased six properties immediately to the east of the store to make room for the new one. Houses on the west side of the 200 block of North 16th Street have been demolished.
A building on Second Avenue North that housed Salon & Co. was demolished as well.
The new store will sit behind the current one, on that property along North 16th Street. It will face west, as the current store does.
The City Council has approved rezoning the properties of 16th Street and Second Avenue North from multifamily residential and office commercial to arterial commercial status. It also updated the future land use plan.
The company will be required to install lights that point straight down and are enclosed so that the bulbs cannot be seen from the sides, according to Thomas Leichliter, the associate city planner.
“The goal is to reduce as much outward light pollution as is humanly possible,” he said.
Leichliter said the company has submitted a plan that appears to exceed the minimum planting requirements.
