The Sheetz at 12163 Hull Street Road in Chesterfield. The convenience store chain recently acquired another spot in the county for a new location. (BizSense file)
A convenience store chain is adding to its Chesterfield presence on part of a property once planned for an outpost of a long-running local florist.
Sheetz has started construction on a new location at 9420 Midlothian Turnpike, a 2.7-acre property it recently bought in a $2.5 million transaction from an LLC tied to Strange’s Florist.
The transaction included about $2 million for the land and about $500,000 for Strange’s to conduct elevation work on the property. The undeveloped land was assessed by the county at $1.3 million.
While construction has started on the Sheetz, it’s unclear when it is anticipated to open. A Sheetz spokesman didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The location is planned to feature a 6,000-square-foot convenience store, gas pumps and a car wash, according to a site plan filed with the county.
The land that Sheetz acquired was part of a roughly 30-acre assemblage along the turnpike that Strange’s bought decades ago with an eye toward potentially constructing a florist shop there.
Strange’s had a change of heart and the company is now selling off pieces of the overall property because of factors that include shifts in the gardening business landscape, said Strange’s President Bill Gouldin. He added that the potential florist shop was delayed by a lengthy process of making the site project-ready.
Gouldin said that while the company saw potential for an outpost on the site, it also was open to the idea of selling the land for the right price. He said other portions of the 30-acre site are under contract to be sold.
“Times have changed since we bought it 20 or 30 years ago. From the beginning we intended to pursue the highest and best use,” Gouldin said. “We intended to do a store unless we got a good offer.”
The sale was announced by Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer last week and recorded by Chesterfield in March. Thalhimer’s David Smith handled the deal on behalf of Strange’s.
Gouldin and his brother Cary co-own Gouldin Holding Co., which controls Strange’s and real estate entity Gouldin Properties LLC, which was the seller in the deal.
Sheetz recently acquired a portion of a roughly 30-acre site (outlined in yellow) on Midlothian Turnpike that has been held by Strange’s Florist for several decades. (Courtesy Thalhimer)
The LLC is listed as the owner of the rest of the assemblage, which consists of the 9.6-acre parcel at 9500 Midlothian Turnpike, an 18-acre site at 9450 Nature Way, and two less-than-an-acre lots at 9278 and 9286 N. Tuxford Road, according to online land records. The assemblage is near Powhite Parkway’s interchange with Midlothian Turnpike.
The Sheetz deal was the first sale involving the Strange’s assemblage to be announced. A Thalhimer map of the assemblage showed the two Tuxford Road properties as under contract. A Take 5 Oil Change location is planned for 9286 N. Tuxford, according to county documents.
Strange’s sells plants, flowers and related products at two locations – one at 12111 W. Broad St. in Short Pump and the other at 3313 Mechanicsville Turnpike in Hanover.
Gouldin said the company is doing well and has more than 100 people working at its stores, depending on the season.
“We’ve been very blessed. During COVID we had operating difficulties with customers not being able to get out, but through COVID and since, we have managed to be successful. We’re having a very good year so far this year,” he said.
The company once had six locations but has trimmed its store count over the years. It shuttered two stores in Chesterfield in 2017.
Strange’s was founded locally in the 1930s, and the Gouldin family has owned it since 1947, according to the company’s website.
Sheetz is an amazing store. You can tell how booming a metro is by the number of Sheetz storez. We need many more of them in RVA. Keep it coming, Sheetz!
Spoken like a true provincial.
Alright!!! I have to call you out on this one. I am not going to question you or your identity personally, and it wouldn’t even matter. All I can say is that as a young man in MY 20s I had to deal with people from NYC or Philly that would call me some kind of provincial and I would, upon questioning them, find out they were from Staten Island or somewhere and of course big cities are as full of dopes as any other places. Certainly the public schools in such places aren’t good places to learn…. So, you… Read more »
Growing up in NJ we had Stewarts drive-in root beer stands which I think are just about all gone now. They were throw backs from the 50’s, with many still offering no indoor seating at all. But you could either sit at a counter or get the tray hung on the window of the car and the frosty mugs full of root beer were always delicious. I also happened to grow up right in the heart of Wawa country, and I too have become fond of their fellow PA chain Sheetz. Great array of food made to order (including fantastic… Read more »
Thank you.
I feel the need to point out that I think the Stewarts you are talking about has no connection to the one in North-east NYS — I at one time thought there was a connection as well, but now I don’t think so.
The vibe at a lot of Stewarts in upstate NY is rather 1970s…. except where they have invested money to often totally rebuild them, and then the vibe is like a new 7-11 down here….. Sheetz and Wawas are a lot nicer.
How many dino juice stations can one town support I find this silly that they talk about peak oil and global warming and yet they keep building gas station after gas station. They currently have a Sheetz gas station proposed on Midlohatain Turnpike by the Kroger.
I find this crazy in that I drive a EV and haven’t pulled into one of these places in two years.
Global Warming and Climate Control the way the deep state elites describe it is a big fat lie. I wouldn’t worry about that. The earth has always been changing to a certain degree NATURALLY. And no sea level rise is a damn joke too. For people who try to use New Orleans as an example, no dude, the French built that city on a huge swamp.
Didn’t Obama’s chef lose his life (in a manner so to speak) from sea level rise on the recently aquired oceanfront estate?
Bill Gates is still finishing up his seafront compound in Del Mar right on the coast in San Diego County.
Didn’t Bezos just purchase (as of Tuesday?) his third mansion on the same low lying island off the coast of West Palm or Miami?
I find it very brave and assuring that “the elite” are willing to take this climate thing (create a false treadeable commodity i.e., ‘carbon’) head-on.
All the rich buying up oceanfront property that is supposedly “in danger” according to them is definitely an interesting one to say at the very least.
Below sea level, even, but that was not the French who did that.
I am no expert on NO, but I think the French built in an intelligent place — like on an elevation.
There are a lot of problems in the Mississippi Delta — one of the big ones is the nature of the river’s COURSE being changable — there aren’t a lot of towns built on the river as a result of this — St Louis for instance is rather high above the banks of the Mississippi-Missouri confluence if I recall correctly (only drove through there once…)
It’s not just about gas. These convenience stores are actually where many of these companies make their money. I know you have not been to one, but when I go to Sheetz or Wawa, the inside is almost always packed. Furthermore, Toyota and now Ford are embracing plug-in hybrids over full EV. PHEVs meet the needs of most American drivers, use about 1/6th the of the battery size of an EV but offer the convenience of a 5 minute fill-up to get hundreds of miles of range. I know that supercharging and 400kw capable chargers are on the horizon, but… Read more »
Yes to PHEVs. I am pretty sure he’s been to one, because in some places Sheetz is the best place around to plug in — the Sheetz and the closely sited Walmart are the best places in Staunton, for instance, to plug in. And the quality of the freshly ground coffee of the self-serve and pleasantness of the seating area is nice while you wait with a newspaper or laptop. As someone who occasionally travels with a “four-wheeled office”, I can attest to this. As an armchair anthropologist, I also find fascinating the cross-sections of locales I can observe coming… Read more »
Carl, perhaps you should delve into who is the “they” telling you about global warming. I am not speaking of the paid shills reading from the teleprompters on the state propaganda networks. I am speaking of the behind the scenes people providing the ad-copy/state sanctioned programming to them. Do you, perchance, remember Sir Anthony Blair? I suggest you delve into his very old and (yet) unsuccessfull dealings in creating a carbon trading exchange.
What has a larger carbon footprint? War? Cruise ships? Auto racing? Shooting rockets to space? Volcanos? Cows? Martha’s Vineyard? Printing a trillion dollars to combat global warming? Yet none of these are outlawed to protect the Earth from the extinction of humanity from global warming. The insanity of it all causes more climate change than change itself. lol.
Indeed. Is that trillion in addition to the trillion printed for the PPP loan greed-grab?
Yeah. And another trillion to pay the interest on the debt. It’s all good. Just hope we don’t run out of other people’s money.
That is a very rational fear. So much of what we do here is financed not from taxpayers, but selling ever increasingly dubious debt to foreign entities. Oh, they’ll get their dollars back, but how much will they be able to buy with them?
That is why some big central banks are buying gold and using gold to settle accounts with other countries — they don’t trust each others currencies, they in fact trust them less than the dollar, but they are starting to trust the dollar less…
I once heard an economist explain our trade with China this way; “China produces a product that we purchase using U.S. dollars. China then returns those dollars to us for an I.O.U. Therefore, we end up with the product and the dollars and China ends up with the I.O.U.” I reckon if we are not good stewards of the dollar then China is screwed. How is the Federal Reserve doing? My best guess is that the dollar has lost upwards of 95% of value since about 1913.
Yep. Everyone is concerned about the music stopping. The US govt no doubt wants to de-value the $ as fast as they can without causing too much pain or electoral consequences, since we have that right — it’s not like a mortgage on a house where we can’t say what a dollar is worth or China could seize our oilfields or the Great Lakes or Iowa Farmland, even if we just outright defaulted.
Of course, this is very scary for savers who don’t have money in hard assets.
The biggest rising “carbon footprint”, and possible biggest eventual one is the growing middle classes of Asia and Africa. The Chinese alone are building so many new coal burning plants that they alone will dwarf any reductions we make here. I point this out without blaming the Chinese or anyone else, I should add — just stating what should be obvious.
Every individual in every generation that lives long enough and is informed finds out that much of what they were told by the Big Thinkers in times past was either wrong or an outright lie. Don’t be surprised, and keep an open mind, if this also happens to you and that you too were caught up in some mass hysteria of some kind. In case you don’t know, the whole Peak Oil hysteria has been long discredited — it is another Malthusian intellectual tic that says more about the personality of the thinker (to be fair, this is also true… Read more »
Aha! Caught you falling into the very trap you warn against.
Casey Stengel once said when asked about his teams chances for the upcoming season; (paraphrasing) “I don’t like making predictions. It’s too dangerous especially when it’s about the future.”
Do you really know if Asia/Africa is what you claim it to be? One only needs to look at the “Doomsday Clock” to know(?) that we are less than one second from Doomsday. It will take your best prediction to know what the heck that all means.
We are one second to Doomsday?
Are you a Jehovah’s Witness or something? Did you count the number of characters in my post?
Sorry. Shows you how much I know.
Just looked up the Doomsday Clock.
We are actually 90 seconds from midnight according to Science And Security Board (SASB) founded by Albert Einstein in 1947. I was a bit off when I said we are 1 second from doomsday, haven’t really been keeping up with the SASB. By the way, no, I am not a JW, maybe a something.
So, this Doomsday Clock has proven accurate in the past, correct? Never seemed chicken little before?
This isn’t going to be like the Great Disappointment, right?
Just because Einstein founded something doesn’t mean it is not now horribly corrupted and still about “Science” — that happens to ALL orgs.
Just an example I used to illustrate “predictions.”
I am more in tune with Casey Stengel than Albert Einstein because I know much more about baseball than science. To me, Einstein’s Big Bang theory would be more believable if he were referring to the Bronx Bombers. And dark matter…well we know all about Jackie Robinson’s steal of home. I believe Yogi went to his grave knowing Jackie was out.
I had a feeling that I was misunderstanding you somehow. I know a LOT about science, but also know some of history’s most brilliant scientists were wrong about a lot of things, like Yogi’s “esp about the future”, but also even Scientific things themselves. Biggest and earliest example was Aristotle, who used “Reason” too much. The whole dust up about Gallieo is oversimplified, but much of the dispute was not merely “Science vs Religion” more than it was experiment vs. reason and tradition — you had all these philosopher types in the universities who saw as dogma the reasonings, the… Read more »
One need not look for the “Welcome to Chesterssippi” sign, they’ll know they have arrived by the frequency of mega-gas stations on every-other-block. This portion of the tunpike is literally nothing but used car dealerships and enormous gas stations slinging processed foods for the masses.
Well, at least you can’t call it another Short Pump?
Good one, if meant to be funny. I thought it funny.
Your distain for the Masses is noted.
Not sure where there aren’t gas stations though…. probably where there aren’t people.
It’s not all processed food, and some of the processed food is not all that processed.
Of course, there is processed food there, just like the supermarket, but it makes more sense at a Sheetz because that is part of the deal, along with the willingness to pay more because one is on the rd. I of course know this and plan ahead and have my own food and only occationally buy coffee in such places when I am traveling.
I think Stranges had some of that land for more than 30 years. I think it is has been cleared and graded under the same land disturbance permit since I would say 2005. It always seems to have a grader just moving around some red clay. Glad to see some development. Figured once the shopping center build passed it by in the late 1990s this was going to be apartments with some retail up front.
Any of you Lads remember the Steak House across from this property – The Groaning Board? Sheetz just opened a very nice store on Forest Hill Ave. Strengthening the neighborhood and BTW they have a chargin station for my EV
Ahh, the Groaning Board. At last someone brings up a topic I can understand. This thread sure has transitioned from a new Sheetz to global warming to what was once a great steak restaurant where folks could eat beef without feeling like their consumption was helping to destroy the planet. Now, who remembers Aberdeen Barn?
Aberdeen Barn?Was that the steak house across Branches Baptist Church over Southside?
WaWa makes a pretty good sandwich for a gas station.
Thanks for enlightening the provincials to the wonders of Sheetz!! Our Sustainable Xanadu Future awaits with lux interiors!