When will QT gas stations come closer into City of Atlanta (Mableton: homes, to buy)

[Saintmarks]

Maybe the powers that be at QT browse this forum and realize that ITPers want to outlaw cars and convert all public thoroughfares to heavyraillightrailstreetcarbusbike lanes.

[ehoez]

stop using gas, even atlanta police drive electric now. lol

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Mishap

The challenge is QT requires a sizable footprint and land isn't cheap in town. Either they have to find a use that produces adequate revenue to justify the land buy or the project doesn't get funded. Distance from the freeway also increases supply chain costs of delivering gas. Once you factor all of that in, the gas isn't much cheaper than the Shells or BPs in town.

Exactly.
There are QTs at Sidney Marcus, Briarcliff & NDH and Briarcliff & Clairmont.
It is as you say; you need a sizable enough footprint to make the thing work.

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by ehoez

stop using gas, even atlanta police drive electric now. lol

I love the Georgia Power sponsorship sticker on the rear bumper.....

[BackInATL2011]

Is it true they were trying to build one on Howell Mill and Chattanooga?

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

Yea most of the cost savings QT has is a mixture of dodging high tax areas, lower property values, and in no small part benefiting from economics of scale by having larger facilities by seeking higher amounts of sales for low to moderate additional costs. This model requires more land. It also requires being on a heavily traffic'd commuter roadway. They tend to be placed on cheaper pieces of land between more expensive 'nodes' along a major thoroughfare, but this still sets them up to attract gas buyers going on direction and lets them cut costs.

Even ignoring land value costs, the zoning restrictions on redevelopment would not be in QTs favor...

However, let me raise this question....

QT's are hardly going to be desirable for most redevelopment projects, but....

Is it worth allowing/encouraging the building of these mega-gas stations given the fact it will make it easier for many more of the smaller ones to go away and be redeveloped in the long-run?

Collectively the older smaller gas stations actually have a bigger foot print given their output, but it is scattered.

Okay thanks CW makes perfect sense.

[ATLTJL]

Leave it to the members of this board to take issue with QT, one of the few companies that basically does everything right.

From low prices to quality products and good service every single time...I can't imagine why anybody wouldn't want a QT nearby.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by BackInATL2011

Is it true they were trying to build one on Howell Mill and Chattahoochee?

Fixed it for you. And yes they're still moving to build one there.

[arjay57]

There ought to be several places they could put another one intown. How about over on Marietta at Moore's Mill? They could go toe to toe with the Racetrac.

Or how about south downtown, say, along Whitehall?

[BackInATL2011]

Originally Posted by Gulch

Fixed it for you. And yes they're still moving to build one there.

Thanks! Glad to hear they are still possibly building one there.