Kansas City South Side Fights Yet Another Gas Station Liquor Store

This impressive quote from a neighborhood leader puts the argument in the PERFECT perspective . . .

The group of community activists with Hickman Mills United Neighborhoods knows that a gas station most always means another place to buy liquor.

“There are nine gas stations within a mile of this location,” Brandon Wright, co-chair the group, told a recent meeting. “And the are twelve liquor licenses.”

At issue is a plan submitted on Aug. 27 by developer Bassam Derbas to convert a former Arvest Bank building at 9300 Blue Ridge Blvd., into a gas station. Derbas has said his plan also includes two restaurants on the property, but his request for a special-use permit at the site is only for the installation of tanks and pumps.

He also has said the project would provide sorely-needed jobs to the neighborhood.

Wright was skeptical about jobs. Other gas stations in the area often are “one guy in a glass cage,” he said.

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Another gas station? Hickman Mills residents say no

"There are nine gas stations within a mile of this location."