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In my book, let me know when it happens! “Wake up, neighbor! The gas station is open!”
This past week one of my sons thought it would be fun to take a look at what the Joy Oil gas station on Quigley Street across from the Farmers Market used to look like before the city did away with it.
This past week one of my sons thought it would be fun to take a look at what the Joy Oil gas station on Quigley Street across from the Farmers Market used to look like before the city did away with it. Of course I was pretty curious myself, since I have to drive through it everyday to get to work. When I found out it cost $400,000 to refurbish the Joy Oil site and then sell it on Craigslist for $5,000, I got pretty excited. Normally I wouldn’t get too excited about the construction of a bar in the street, but in this case, it actually is taking place!
There has been a lot of work to do and it took about a year to complete. Actually, they reopened the store this week. But they still have hundreds of thousands of dollars left on the project. So why didn’t they open sooner? Well, it’s complicated because they had to start over every bit of the property after the street had already been repaved and the front parking lot had been completely repaved and restriped.
You can thank the ‘Common Council’ and the State for that. They had to complete the underbuilding before they could create an outbuilding with the restaurant built into it. They had to plan all of that out before they could plan the interior — which took another year. I thought that was crazy, but that’s the way it goes when you have a state agency as a part of city government.
I have been trying to contact them in an attempt to get answers about how they got into this mess. But it seems that they have been walking through this shutdown on their own and I don’t know what to do.
I got the following responses from the city officials who I requested questions from after I called them. The Mayor was not available for comment. Hopefully, I’ll get an answer soon.
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