Demolition began Tuesday morning on the Auto Ford Plaza building. QuikTrip plans to move its store at 3010 S. Big Bend Boulevard to the corner at Manchester and Big Bend.
Work was started, then held up when Maplewood police arrived and had the southbound lane of Big Bend closed.
Property owner Dan Lesseg told 40 South News previously that the demolition work would take more than a week. He also said the typical QuikTrip takes six months to build.
Maplewood voters approved the QuikTrip relocation in April, by passing Prop Q. The new QuikTrip location was originally opposed, in 2011, by the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District.
Thank goodness the hideous gray elephant will be gone in a few days.
Gary, owner Dan Lesseg told me the steel will be recycled.
I hope at least some of that material can be recycled so it doesn’t all go into the landfill.