Kwik Star eyeing $10M store, truck center here

Kwik Star/Kwik Trip is preparing to break ground on a $10 million project on Highway 122, just east of Interstate 35.

Clear Lake City Administrator Scott Flory confirmed Tuesday he has given Kwik Star/Trip officials a draft of a development agreement 

which includes the city’s partial funding of a traffic signal at the Highway 122 and Willow Creek/North 32nd Street intersection. That draft is currently under review by the business’s legal department.  The City would contribute $250,000 of the estimated $700,000 cost of the traffic signal and Highway 122 reconstruction needed for the project, according to Flory.

“We have been working with Kwik Star/Kwik Trip officials and their consultants for nearly a year now,” said Flory.  The City will use a portion of the new taxes created by the development project to pay for its share of the traffic signal improvements.

The anticipated schedule is to begin construction in May and be completed in October of this year.  The project would be located just east of the new Pritchard’s Ford on Highway 122.

The site plan is expected before the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission later this month. 

It is anticipated the Clear Lake project will be one of Kwik Star’s  largest and most sophisticated of their 450 stores/truck centers in the three-state area they serve.  They employ over 12,000 people company-wide.