Parkville is Getting a Quik Trip (Finally)

One thing I don't understand about people is how they are shocked when things change or development happens.  I once joked with someone at a public meeting that if they don't want to see the farm field behind them disappear to be replaced with beige split level homes or don't want to see the street in front of them improved with sidewalks and streetlights they should move to Plattsburg.  In an urban area, development and improvements will eventually happen and it's going to be painful.

Anyways, after much brou-ha-ha, Quik Trip received Parkville Planing and Zoning Commission approval Tuesday to build a store at the southeast corner of Route 9 and 45.  What looks like this:

and is at the intersection of two state highways with a lot of cars going by and is zoned for commercial uses will become:

Here is the aerial view of the proposed site.

The site will require a lot of grading and it appears that grading will leave a buffer on the east side.

Here is a rendering with the view from MO-45.

The view from the east property line.

Architectural layout of the store's floor plan.

Pump renderings.

Finally the store outside of the store rendering.

I could have used this back in 1998.  I got signed up to play for the company team in a softball league and the games were out next to the Shawnee landfill on I-435.  I was running late to the game and the gas tank dropped below on "E" and, being new to the area, I figured there would be somewhere along I-435 to grab some gas because it's an interstate in an urban area and there's a gas station at every interchange right? 

I was in for a surprise.  There was nothing out there.  That was the time when Wyandotte County was abusing eminent domain to secure the land around the future speedway and the area was still cattle and scattered houses.

I ended up exiting at MO 45 and using my 5 speed manual transmission to coast downhill and luckily made it that station near the golf course. 

I've always been one of those that waits until the last minute to fuel up and that night it almost burned me big time.  This habit of driving 50 miles after the light comes on drives Mrs. Loudmouth nuts.  I've since then discovered I'm not the only one that does that.....

 

Clip credit to Sony Pictures Television from the TV show Seinfeld.