There are 17 article(s) tagged convenience stores:

• September 2024

  • City Council gives thumbs down to two convenience stores with gas pumps

    The Memphis City Council voted down or delayed all but one proposal in a meeting dominated by planning and development items.

    By Bill Dries September 11, 2024

• January 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Vote pumps brakes for Broad Ave. gas station

    The City Council Scorecard looks at how the votes lined up on the second rejection in three months for a convenience store with gas pumps at Broad Avenue and Tillman Street.

    By Bill Dries January 28, 2022

• December 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: A resurrection at Broad and Tillman

    The City Council Scorecard examines the procedural votes that brought a controversial commercial development project and a key intersection back to life after the council killed the project in November on a tie vote.

    By Bill Dries December 15, 2021

• October 2021

  • How and when electric vehicles will affect Memphis convenience stores

    The tsunami of electric vehicles will eventually hit. And the effect on Memphis should be substantial. Memphis has a lot of gas stations, 369, according to a study by the Division of Planning and Development.

    By Tom Bailey October 03, 2021

• May 2021

  • Developer appeals decision blocking C-store/gas on Summer

    A developer of convenience stores selling fuel tore down the old, masonry building on a prominent Summer Avenue corner. Now he’s appealing a decision that he cannot build a C-store there.

    By Tom Bailey May 26, 2021

  • Collierville Planning Commission denies convenience store

    Collierville Planning Commission denied a conditional use permit for a gas station on New Byhalia Road near Maynard Way.

    By Abigail Warren May 07, 2021

• April 2021

  • Proposed Binghampton business includes ‘multi-architectural’ features

    A developer has unusually elaborate plans for a convenience store with gas at the long-vacant corner of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street. 

    By Tom Bailey April 09, 2021

• March 2021

  • C-store with gas proposed for VECA neighborhood

    The convenience store with fuel pumps would be built on the southwest corner of Jackson and Evergreen, requiring the demolition of an 86-year-old commercial structure.

    By Tom Bailey March 05, 2021

• December 2020

  • Collierville moves toward convenience store south of Tenn. 385 near Byhalia Road

    Collierville officials approved a conditional use permit for a convenience store and gas station on the south side of Tenn. 385. 

    By Abigail Warren December 15, 2020

• November 2020

  • Convenience stores with gas pumps get split council verdict

    A trio of proposed convenience stores before the Memphis City Council Tuesday, Nov. 17, went one for three.

    By Bill Dries November 17, 2020

• October 2020

  • Planning board approves just one of 3 proposed gas stations

    A proposal to build a Murphy Express gas station in Raleigh received approval even though it does not follow the city’s long-range concept plan to make key intersections more appealing and pedestrian friendly.

    By Tom Bailey October 08, 2020

• August 2020

  • Commission votes down East Holmes and Hacks Cross convenience store

    A proposed convenience store with gas pumps on the southeast corner of East Holmes Road and Hacks Cross Road was voted down Monday, Aug. 24, by Shelby County commissioners.

    By Bill Dries August 24, 2020

  • Case for proposed Broad Avenue convenience store may be delayed again

    An issue involving delivery-truck access for an adjacent business will likely again delay the review by the Board of Adjustment of a proposal to build a convenience store with fuel at the corner of Broad and Hollywood.

    By Tom Bailey August 24, 2020

  • Plans for convenience stores with fuel pop up across Memphis

    The Land Use Control Board in September is to consider applications for three convenience stores with gas, plus a truck stop. And those are hardly all of the proposals floating about.

    By Tom Bailey August 10, 2020

  • Revisions made to proposed Broad Ave. convenience store/gas station

    The latest proposal more tightly controls traffic flow and aspires to blend better with Broad's old buildings. But the opposition leader says the development would still be an unwanted gas station.

    By Tom Bailey August 03, 2020

• July 2020

  • C-store/gas stations fuel American dream for hard-working couple

    Rooziman and Nighat Shah have just bought 45 acres at Hacks Cross and Shelby Drive, with plans to build a convenience store/gas station as well as a 16,000-square-foot shopping center on the corner. They own more than 100 C-stores in and around the Memphis area.

    By Tom Bailey July 23, 2020

• January 2020

  • Group-living sites proposed for Hickory Hill, North Memphis

    Planning board to consider zoning exceptions that would allow group living facilities in two areas of Memphis.

    By Tom Bailey January 30, 2020