(KNSI) — St. Cloud’s Planning Commission recommends selling the former District 742 Media Service Center to Holiday Stationstores for $1.3 million.
The company plans to raze the old building and open a 24 hour, 5,200-square-foot convenience store with seven fuel pumps and a 3,150-square-foot carwash on the site. But, St. Cloud Community Development Director Matt Glaesman told KNSI News, “the company has agreed to a number of design or aesthetic changes to the proposed building, the canopy, and the landscaping, so some changes are coming. One, [is] a photometric plan that shows how much light would be shed, and some noise modeling to really take a look at that carwash, what kind of noise would be generated and how that’s shut off into the adjoining area.”
The recommendation will go to the city council in June. The council will hold a public hearing before deciding on the proposal.
After voters approved building Tech High School, the city signed a purchase agreement for the land in 2019 for $1 from the St. Cloud School District. The old school was renovated and turned into the new city hall.
The land was put up for sale in March of 2022. Officials say Holiday is the only entity to offer fair market value for the land.
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