Shuttered Midtown Gas Station Prepares For Reopening
The closed BP at the northwest corner of Ponce de Leon and Piedmont avenues is set to receive interior and exterior renovations.
Renovations are currently ongoing for another Ponce de Leon Avenue gas and convenience store.
While the transformation of the Exxon to a full-service Shell Mart at the corner or Ponce and Monroe Drive continues at 486 Ponce, several blocks west, the shuttered BP at Ponce and Piedmont Avenue is also receiving a facelift.
The northwest corner of the intersection at 160 Ponce had for many decades been home to a gas and convenience store, but the BP there was closed and fenced off in 2010.
But workers have been observed on the property in recent weeks as the 4,800 square-foot building will be receiving renovations to the interior and façade of the building.
Exterior renovations will include brick veneer and paint to match the brick color. Two existing entry doors will be reworked with stone veneer, crown molding and awnings. Two existing exterior restroom doors will be in‐filled and restroom access will be accommodated from the interior.
Construction costs are expected to approach $210,000. Like the Shell station down the street, a 2013 opening is expected. Requests for further information have not yet been received, but Patch will post here as soon as they become available.
The new station will sit across the street from a Chevron where earlier this month a fire destroyed the car wash area.
Both stations are within the same two-block area where a 280 apartment mixed-use project is currently under construction, and where work will very soon begin on the Georgia Proton Treatment Center that will employ more than 100 and treat around 1,900 patients annually.
JM Hurricane
10:15 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
This great news. Fix an eye sore. Next step police the wandering "workers" in that area.
Jeff K
11:01 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
I thought one of these bldgs was going to be a bank. While I do like to see new construction, do they ALL have to be gas stations?
JustinK
12:54 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
That spot has been a gas station since the 50's so getting upgraded to a bank seems unlikely. Bank branches were way overbuilt prior to online banking so most banks are killing branches these days. Wouldn't mind something else but a fenced in deteriorating lot is about as bad as it could get.
Abby Martin
10:11 am on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Hopefully this space will be a nice balance for the neighborhood. I say this with caution because some of these stations throughout the city should great, but some operators extend the hour and run the spot more for alcohol sales than gas.
ATAGII is trying to balance these interests among the businesses, residents and others so that reasonable balances are put in place so that we all can enjoy intown living on narrow lots with business and residential lines abutting.
Steve Gower
6:08 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
This will be a good start for this corner. Hopefully sooner than later we will see a transformation of that part of Ponce to something pedestrian-oriented rather than vehicular-oriented - like at the link below. But at least putting some life into vacant properties is better than a boarded-up and fenced-off property.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/downtown.asp
Barri and Moochelle Sotero
10:50 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
what happened to a Dunkin Donut and a bank? we have enough gas stations where the halloween dressed crown can loiter drinking malt liquor and looking for things to steal
Bill
9:12 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013
There is no need for a bank there. Fidelity is opening a branch in the old Wachovia office at Ponce and Monroe, and there are plenty of other bank branches and ATMs in the area. The building is not suited for a bank branch or restaurant - underground storage tanks, hydraulic car lifts, a hard to secure building - who would want to deal with all that when there are plenty of other spaces available to build from scratch?