Site work has started on a new Weigel’s convenience store that will include 16 gas pumps and could open later this summer or in the early fall on South Illinois Avenue.
Site work has started for a new Weigel’s on South Illinois Avenue.
The convenience store is expected to include 16 gas pumps and could open in the late summer or early fall, said Chris Ooten, Weigel’s real estate director.
The roughly 4,000-square-foot store will be on a 1.5-acre parcel south of TNBank.
Ooten said Weigel’s closed on the property about a month ago and has been working on utilities since then.
Unexpected utility work put the project behind schedule, he said, and existing city utilities had to be lowered to allow Weigel’s to put in driveways.
Ooten said some dirt will have to be removed to level out the site, and a retaining wall will be put in at Potomac Circle.
The Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission and City Council approved the project last summer and fall.
Jason Allison says
I am 100% for this new weigles but I’m also for the construction companies keeping Patomac and South Purdue clean. on more than one occasion there have been construction debris left on the road.
Jason Allison says
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