A strategic site in Arlington developed to sell cars now is being redeveloped to serve them.
The city is reviewing a demolition permit for a former auto dealership and JEA staging area at northwest Atlantic and Southside boulevards for construction of a Circle K store.
Contractor W.H. Bass Inc. of Duluth, Georgia, will clear the Regency area site at a cost of $117,000, the application shows.
The address is 100 Southside Blvd.
Plans show a 5,200-square-foot Circle K convenience store and gas station will be developed on the western 2.87-acre lot of the 5.09-acre site.
No tenant is shown on the almost 2.22-acre eastern lot, but there is a sign along the property for Camel Premium Express Car Wash.
The site, also addressed at 9201 Atlantic Blvd., was long used by Coggin Pontiac.
City utility JEA bought the parcel for $3.24 million in 2011 for construction and pipeline installation and to stage equipment for area work.
The JEA board voted in May 2020 to sell the property to Circle K Stores Inc., the Tempe, Arizona-based international convenience store chain.
Circle K Stores Inc. paid JEA $3.15 million for the property in May 2021.
It proposes a $2.1 million convenience store and gas station at the site.
That is the basic construction and not the total development estimate.
The city is reviewing permit applications for the convenience store and a trash enclosure. A fuel canopy will be permitted separately.
Steve McInall, JEA vice president of energy and water planning, told the utility board in May 2020 the structures on the site are in disrepair and likely will be demolished.
Property records show the three buildings, totaling almost 50,000 square feet, were developed in 1969
