Remember that 7-Eleven at Doby’s Bridge Elementary in Fort Mill? It’s broken ground.
The controversial 7-Eleven gas station beside Doby’s Bridge Elementary School is now under construction and should be complete in November.
FRONTIER Building issued a release Thursday stating that the construction and design company is done with a 7-Eleven in Fort Mill and now is working on the one beside the elementary school. The gas station there drew considerable public protest last year from parents because of its proximity to the school and playground.
“This fall, FRONTIER will have completed two 7-Elevens in Fort Mill and many others throughout the Mid-Atlantic,” project manager Derek Hopkins said in the release.
The company built sites in Charlotte and Gastonia, N.C., along with others in Spartanburg and elsewhere.
The latest Fort Mill site is a little different. Parents of students who attend Doby’s Bridge Elementary School protested at town planning commission, council and school board meetings. They protested at the morning drop off line at the school. Several parents, upset the gas station was allowed, ran for mayor and town council last fall.
FRONTIER completed a 7-Eleven at 3085 S.C. 160 West where the builder knocked down an abandoned home on an almost three-acre lot to put up the 3,340-square-foot station with 16 fuel pumps.
The site at 2020 South Dobys Bridge Road, beside the elementary school, will be similar. That site is more than two acres and is part of a retail shopping center also under construction. The 3,484-square-foot site will have 26 fuel pumps and 24 parking spaces.
The area of Dobys Bridge and Fort Mill Parkway is a growing retail spot. A Harris Teeter grocery store is coming near the site.
