The old QuikTrip location in Maplewood may change hands in the next few weeks, QuikTrip St. Louis real estate manager, Alan Renner, said Thursday.
Until that happens the building at Flora Avenue and S. Big Bend will remain unused.
“We’re getting close to a lease buyout,” he said. “I may have something to tell you in a week or two. Once we get the lease buyout done then we’re pretty much out of that location.” He said QT is currently obligated to a lease until 2019.
“So I’m paying rent on a building that’s vacant and empty, and they can’t do anything with it either because I’m leasing it, so we need to come to the table and get this lease buyout done, and then they can move forward with what they want to do,” Renner said.
Renner had no further details.
Q!, Thank you for speaking out. I am with you. I was told the same from Barry Greenburg, who I hear want to be the next mayor. He told me, “if I vote for QT the old one will be torn down and turned into green space or rented within a year”.
He’s how I see it….when we were asked to vote for the QT on the promise that the old one would be rented or torn down —– either Greenburg and the city manager didn’t understand who owned the property and how the lease worked or they made it all up and told us anything to get our vote. Personally, I don’t think Greenburg and the city manager are that dumb, they knew what was going on and they knew what they were saying was not true. Tell them anything for a vote, and they did. I will remember this in April, I hope everyone else does too.
But “getting out of it” wasn’t the deal, was it? The deal that was promised by city and QT alike was that one year later it would be either occupied or converted to greenspace. The only selling in this deal was the bill of goods the citizens of Maplewood bought.
Remember this in the April elections.
Q!
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