Sheetz recently renovated its North Franklin Street location in Christiansburg and has now submitted plans to the town for a second location on Roanoke Street near the Fatback Soul Shack restaurant.
The new 6,077-sq.-ft building would be adjacent to Industrial Lane to the front of the town’s industrial park. The property is currently home to a convenience store. Gasoline pumps would be located toward the front of Roanoke Street and would provide easy on-off access to Interstate 81.
The Christiansburg Planning Commission has also received a recent update on the Marketplace project on North Franklin. The developer, Walt Rector, is indicating it will now contain two Marriott hotels joined at the lobby. This is a new concept hoteliers like Marriott are employing with two different levels of cost, room sizes, and suite sizes with buildings that will share the same lobby, food facility, maid service, and security for efficiency. The proposed hotels will be five stories high with stick construction.
Rector also told the planning commission at a recent meeting that this project began as a $30 million undertaking, but is now in the range of $250 million because of the quality of the location and the growth of the community, among other factors.
Plans for another hotel, a Tru by Hilton, have also been submitted for Hampton Boulevard.
So when is the grand opening for Sheetz?????