SPRINGDALE — Two more new chain convenience stores will be added to Springdale.
The Planning Commission approved Tuesday large-scale developments for a new Casey’s General Store and a Kum & Go store. The additions will give Kum & Go five new stores in the city and three for Casey’s.
“These are much like their other stores in the city,” said Patsy Christie, city director of planning and community development.
The Kum & Go will be built at the corner of Johnson Road and Sunset Avenue, replacing a store at that site which will be demolished.
The Casey’s store will be on the southwest corner of the intersection of Don Tyson Parkway and Thompson Street. The site is now a used car lot for Kent Dobbs Hyundai, according the business’ application to the planning department.
Kum & Go entered the Springdale market by buying old 7-Eleven stores on Johnson Road and Backus Avenue, according to city records. The company added a new store on Elm Springs Road at Interstate 540.
It opened another on Old Missouri Road at its intersection with Huntsville Avenue. It replaced the store at Backus and North Pleasant Street with one at the corner of Backus and Thompson.
A store at Robinson Avenue and Old Missouri opened in the last few months.
Casey’s opened its first Springdale store at the corner of Don Tyson Parkway and Old Missouri Road in May 2011. The company has filed plans for two more stores, the one at Thompson and Don Tyson Parkway and another at Maple Street and Thompson, according to city records.
The store at Thompson and Maple will replace a car wash. Casey’s General Stores, based in Ankeny, Iowa, announced its expansion to Arkansas in June 2010.
Kum & Go, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, has announced plans to enter the central Arkansas market.
At A Glance
Commission Action
Springdale’s Planning Commission met Tuesday an approved:
- Rezoning 13.8 acres at 13455-A Puppy Creek Road from agricultural to thoroughfare commercial; rezoning 2.6 acres at 200 W. Emma Ave. owned by Fellowship Baptist Church from multifamily residential to institutional.
- Approved a large-scale development for Manning Clinic on west side of Issac’s Orchard Drive.
Source: Staff Report