21-02-2025 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.