Sheetz’s request, unlike the zoning zoning zoning store at the Road Road entrance shop in the Millcreek mall, has been denied by the Millcreek Zoning Auditory Board.
The Altoona -based chain had planned to build a convenience store with an area of 6,139 square meters with 10 fuel pumps, a passageway and a car wash at the place of the former Red Lobster restaurant. The store would be similar to the store built on West 38th and Liberty Streets in Erie.
Road Edinboro’s property is zoned for Commercial-2 Development, which does not include large convenience stores. Sheetz demanded a deviation from zoning to allow the store to build.
Sheetz argument
The former Red Lobster restaurant of 2040 Edinboro Road has been shown after its closure in 2024.
Sheetz’s representatives claim that a former red -lobedy restaurant with an area of 850 square meters, built in 1987, is too large for a modern restaurant and that the 1.8 acres property is too small for strip plaza.
It would be forgotten for the business to build a smaller building on the property and no other business was interested in the reconstruction of the property, as it was offered for rent in June, said Ryan Watts, a lawyer at Pittsburgh, representing Sheetz, at a request for differences.
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The offered comfort store, said Wotus, would be suitable for the property and will be “in the context of the surrounding neighborhood that exists within this commercial development”.
It will also strengthen tourism by serving guests in nearby hotels and improve safety in the area with additional lighting and 24-hour operations, said Niki Kulie, representing Chase Hotel Group, which owns and manages the Candlewood Suites, adjacent to the red lobster property.
“Most of our (guests) come from Canada, and we take many nurses and long-term nurses,” Kully said. “A convenience store would be great for them in the walking distance.”
Not “only in the name of convenience”
More than restaurants and sites are allowed in the C-3 area, although the property will hold a small playground like the one anchored by Starbucks near the former Red Lobster property, Millcreek lawyer Mark Shaw said.
Thirty-one types of businesses are allowed in the C-3 area, and the property has been proposed for leasing in less than a year, Shaw said.
A large convenience store will be better built in the nearby mixed-use neighborhood along the Zimmerly Road west of the Interstate 79, said the director for the planning and development of the city Matt Wolding. Large stores are allowed in the area for convenience.
“Although we are happy to host Sheetz in the city of Millcreek and we are proud that the first sheetz in the whole region is built on Asbury Road, we think there are appropriate zoned places very close to this (Edinboro Road Property) that will not require the variation of us. Woldinger.
Hagen History Center CEO Cal Piffer, speaking as a Millcreek resident while listening to zoning, claims that entrance to the Millcreek mall is not a suitable place for a comfort store.
“This is the door to the Millcreek mall,” Puffer said. “Can any of you say it wisely say that the gas station will be an aesthetic addition to the city.
“This is their standard design. This is for gas stations suitable for the highway country,” Puffer said. “It is not suitable for a large tourist attraction in our community.”
The Zoning Board voted unanimously and without comment to reject the Sheetz Dispersion request.
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This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Board to zoning Millcreek denies Sheetz’s Dispersion for Road Store Edinboro