To our Evergreen neighbors:
The owner 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-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.
What is proposed 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.