MONROE - Work being done to complete the new Kwik Trip building at the corner of 8th Street and 8th Avenue by the end of July remains on schedule.
Ryan Lindsey, city building inspector and zoning administrator, said the company plans to open doors on the new building Aug. 3 and hopes to hold a grand opening at a later date.
Construction supervisor Jim Coblentz has been overseeing the creation of a number of Kwik Trip convenience stores since May 22, 1990. He even had a hand in the construction of the current store in Monroe, which he believes was built in 1992. Since then, the demand from customers has demonstrated the need for a new location.
"It'll be a bigger lot, more accessible and have more parking," Coblentz said. "It should allow more flow."
The site being built will be twice the size of the original at roughly 5,000 square feet. There will be a car wash addition, which has become a standard of the business. Coblentz noted there will also be more gas pumps, with 10 dispensers able to serve two customers each.
Coblentz said his final day to complete inspections will be July 28.
City Administrator Phil Rath said the new location will likely be more convenient. He noted that though a water main had to be relocated from the lot to the 8th Street side, the construction schedule was not interrupted.
Development of the property was criticized in April of last year by some former residents of the mobile home lot who were displaced when the land owners gave notice to renters to leave by the end of November 2015 but then left the land to sit empty for months. Trailer homes left on the lot were demolished and removed over the winter months between 2015 and 2016.
In April 2016, the land had still not been sold by former owners Roundy-Bader LLC. Once the sale was finalized, Kwik Trip developers began to make changes at the beginning of 2017, cutting down the lot's standing trees. Excavation of the site began in late March. Workers began pouring foundations and framing the building at the beginning of May.
Ryan Lindsey, city building inspector and zoning administrator, said the company plans to open doors on the new building Aug. 3 and hopes to hold a grand opening at a later date.
Construction supervisor Jim Coblentz has been overseeing the creation of a number of Kwik Trip convenience stores since May 22, 1990. He even had a hand in the construction of the current store in Monroe, which he believes was built in 1992. Since then, the demand from customers has demonstrated the need for a new location.
"It'll be a bigger lot, more accessible and have more parking," Coblentz said. "It should allow more flow."
The site being built will be twice the size of the original at roughly 5,000 square feet. There will be a car wash addition, which has become a standard of the business. Coblentz noted there will also be more gas pumps, with 10 dispensers able to serve two customers each.
Coblentz said his final day to complete inspections will be July 28.
City Administrator Phil Rath said the new location will likely be more convenient. He noted that though a water main had to be relocated from the lot to the 8th Street side, the construction schedule was not interrupted.
Development of the property was criticized in April of last year by some former residents of the mobile home lot who were displaced when the land owners gave notice to renters to leave by the end of November 2015 but then left the land to sit empty for months. Trailer homes left on the lot were demolished and removed over the winter months between 2015 and 2016.
In April 2016, the land had still not been sold by former owners Roundy-Bader LLC. Once the sale was finalized, Kwik Trip developers began to make changes at the beginning of 2017, cutting down the lot's standing trees. Excavation of the site began in late March. Workers began pouring foundations and framing the building at the beginning of May.