A new gas station in Cadiz is approaching reality.
During Tuesday’s Cadiz-Trigg County Planning Commission meeting, officials from FiveStar updated the board on full intentions and schematics to develop and purchase two lots in the Jolly Ranch property at the east intersection of US 68 and Business 68 near FNB Bank and Hancock’s Market.
Brad Miles, engineer for the company, noted the timeline is to have a purchasing contract completed with landowner Scott Jolly by early July, which would allow for dirt to be turned and footers to be poured as early as the first week of August.
On the two lots will be a main store, an 8-dispenser gas canopy and a fueling island for trucks, all of which will be located alongside US 68, Jolly Way and Buffalo Bend.
In talking with members and proxy chair Mike Heffington, Miles described the project as quite similar to one just completed in Paducah.
Miles noted this preliminary plat has already been given the early green light by both Building Inspector Frank Wallace and Cadiz/Trigg Engineer Frank Williams, and Heffington said no action would be needed on this development until a final plat is finished and ready.
If the final plat is approved and construction begins, Cadiz will have eight gas stations inside the city limits.
All of Jolly Ranch has been annexed into the city and is on city utilities, and it is zoned B2 as neighborhood-highway business district.
In other Ranch developments, Jolly said an original plat lot that was split needed to be reformed and split again for a new 18-foot adjustment, in order to appease two purchasers.
There has been rampant local and regional speculation that a Dairy Queen would be locating inside this development.
Jolly, however, confirmed to the News Edge Tuesday night that this acquisition didn’t come to be, but that other businesses are on the way.
