The gas station and convenience store at the intersection of Fairgrounds Road and South Country Club Drive will get a major facelift soon, pending Jefferson City Council zoning approval.
The business partnership of Wortman-Fortner LLC, which also operates convenience stores in Franklin County, purchased the Everyday Convenience store, fuel station and car wash at 910 Fairgrounds Road in March.
The plan is to demolish all existing buildings and fixtures, including the fuel station canopy and underground tanks, and reaplce them with a Jack Flash convenience store and station.
"It's a new store under new ownership, and it's going to be run right," said James Wortner. "We'll put something in that corner that the city and that neighborhood deserves."
The Jack Flash convenience store will be nearly twice as large as the existing store, he said, and it will offer hot breakfast and lunch food.
"We'd like to be able to keep the existing store open as long as possible through construction," Wortner said.
Construction could begin as early as mid-October, if the City Council approves the property's planned unit development plan.
Wortman said they would first demolish the existing car wash, then build the new convenience store behind the existing one as it remains open for business, then build the new car wash.
"Once all that is done, we would close down the old store and demolish it," Wortman said.
He estimates the project should take four to six months to complete.
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