08/29/2026, 20:11
Liebe Unterstützende,
der Petent oder die Petentin hat innerhalb der letzten 12 Monate nach Ende der Unterschriftensammlung keine Neuigkeiten erstellt und den Status nicht geändert. openPetition geht davon aus, dass die Petition nicht eingereicht oder übergeben wurde.
Wir bedanken uns herzlich für Ihr Engagement und die Unterstützung,
Ihr openPetition-Team
03/10/2025, 10:58
Dear supporters of 'No' to El Rancho QuikTrip #4288,
By now you may have heard the regrettable news that the sale of the First Bank and El Rancho properties to QuikTrip Corporation closed on 2/24/2025. QuikTrip made itself clear that it had no interest in hearing from the community.
While the former owners who contracted with QuikTrip started their own petition in response to ours, asking people to approve their plan to turn El Rancho into an outsized fueling center, our petition with all of your signatures has made it impossible for them to say that this was what the community wanted. On March 1, the signature counts were 1,764 (ours) vs. 183 (theirs). Your nearly 1000 comments further emphasized the overwhelming rejection of the path they had chosen.
We are leaving the petition open for anyone else who wants to add their thoughts. We will provide updates on our website to this and other proposals facing our neighborhood of Evergreen: www.save-el-rancho-campaign.com/dashboard.html
Thank you all again,
The Save El Rancho Campaign
Evergreen, Colorado
02/21/2025, 21:13
Added links to images that illustrate the scale of the proposed facility for reference.
New petition description:
To our Evergreen neighbors:
The ownerowners of the ca. 1948 El Rancho Colorado restaurant building, 1948 Holdings LLC, have sent a pre-application to Jefferson County proposing to demolish or move the building and, combined with the former First Bank property, build a 5-acre4-acre QuikTrip interstate service center with a 20-bay gas station, 10 diesel pumps for semi trucks, and a convenience store occupying the vacated footprint of the erstwhile restaurant. See QuikTrip's proposed facility: tinyurl.com/bdebcvrr
What is proposed would be the largest fueling center of any kind on the Front Range, more than four and a half times the average size of a "gas station" in the Foothills: tinyurl.com/3re9szt2
It is aimed squarely at I-70 travelers and trucks, not the people, community, scale, and values of Evergreen.
To QuikTrip:
Evergreen does not need a characterless truck stop the size of four football fields. It has a community-scale convenience store as well as a Walmart Supercenter right across the road, among several other gas stations along Hwy 74.
This explicitly I-70 oriented development would not serve the people of Evergreen.
The proposed QuikTrip #4288 does not belong here. Please, move on.
12/16/2024, 17:10
Dear supporters of 'No' to El Rancho QuikTrip #4288,
We have continued to engage in public outreach throughout the fall, and have generated recent media coverage as well (see www.save-el-rancho-campaign.com/elrancho.html). The petition now has more than 1600 supporters, and we will send another batch of signatures to QuikTrip soon.
This note is to invite you to join a group photo in front of El Rancho for an article by the Colorado Sun. The photo will be at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday 12/17. For those of you who live in or near Evergreen, if you are able to please attend.
Thank you, and happy holidays!
The Save El Rancho Campaign
Evergreen, Colorado
11/21/2024, 11:30
Dear supporters of 'No' to QuikTrip,
We have already sent three batches of signatures to QuikTrip leadership and real estate management. As the time has grown short, your signatures have continued to come in. We plan to send another batch to QuikTrip on 11/25.
We will send updates (like this one) specifically related to this petition through the petition site itself. If you would like to receive news regarding development proposals affecting the future of the El Rancho neighborhood and the entrance to Evergreen, including community meeting, outreach, and public comment opportunities, please visit www.save-el-rancho-campaign.com/support.html and use the form to sign up.
Thank you again for interest and concern for the future of El Rancho.
The Save El Rancho Campaign
Evergreen, Colorado
11/01/2024, 11:31
Dear supporters of the Save El Rancho Campaign,
Today, we sent a final batch of signatures to QuikTrip leadership and real estate management. Your 1247 signatures and 773 comments overwhelmingly show that our community rejects this proposal to replace the El Rancho Colorado building with their proposed truck stop. Thank you again for your support!
The Save El Rancho Campaign
Evergreen, Colorado
10/31/2024, 18:27
We have completed our collection of signatures to send directly to QuikTrip on 11/1/2024, but are leaving the petition open in response to ongoing interest in this threat to our neighborhood and to enable others in our community to contribute their opinions. Thank you.
New deadline: 28.02.2025
Signatures at the time of the change: 1247
10/08/2024, 11:58
We are extending the time frame further to engage supporters through upcoming media coverage and meetings.
New deadline: 31.10.2024
Signatures at the time of the change: 1137
09/27/2024, 10:33
People have continued to sign even after we announced submitting the petition, and we are anticipating media exposure that may lead to additional signatures that we will later submit to the County if this proposal advances.
New deadline: 10.10.2024
Signatures at the time of the change: 1054
