Hill’s Atlanta Paint and Body Shop to be demolished making way for gas station and other tenants.
Land at 556 Northside Drive will be redeveloped into a Chevron gas station and convenience store, with two tenant spaces, according to several building permits.
An estimated $1 million will be spent on the project.
Hill’s Atlanta Paint and Body Shop, an auto body repair shop since 1992, will be demolished to make way for the Chevron gas station.
How do you spend a million dollars building a gas station and two tenant spaces?
You spend $30K for demolishing the structure on the land you want to build on and another $927K constructing the gas station itself.
Which begs the question: how are they going to make their money back? Perhaps gas at $100 a gallon?
And who’s going to spend the retail coin to lease space attached to a gas station? Call us naive but we can’t picture Jonathan Adler opening a boutique attached to a Chevron.
But then again, we’ve never opened a gas station. Maybe the costs are just hard to stomach considering location?
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Splendid location* I’ll stick with QT.
*Note the sarcasm.
No Jonathan Adler. Perhaps a Subway and a cash checking/sell your gold joint?
You really should look more into how much the average convenience store costs to build. You don’t come of as too bright on this one.
Yeah! You really should get on down to the Auburn Avenue research library and do some more research on how much an average convenience store costs to build. I mean, this isn’t a blog about new things, it is a blog about construction costs.
keep up the good work 🙂
Nice location. Wonder how many times this place will get robbed.
I don’t expect Caleb be an expert on construction costs and am glad he spends time digging up stories that keep us informed rather than spending that time on going too deep into the implementation details of each project. However, the post was rather snarky in tone so one shouldn’t be surprised when that carries over to the comments.
Northside is going to take a really long time to be redeveloped into something other than an automobile sewer. As much as I hate to see another gas station going in, it does appear to be a step up from the current use. Maybe in fifteen years there will be a post on the “old” Chevron station being torn down to make way for the last piece in the Northside mixed use development.
It’s crazy now I’m older that I used to play at that body shop as a kid and worked there with my father and big brother because it was a family ran business it was a good place for business cause we was next to a high way man I miss that place