News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Sisters’ Chevron station will move this summer to become the fuel station partner with the McDonald’s restaurant going up at the west end of town.
Steve Rodgers of Cache Mountain Development and Randy Moss of American Energy in Bend made the announcement Monday.
According to Moss, the current Chevron station on the corner of Oak Street and Cascade Avenue will be shut down when the move iscomplete.
“There will be no interruption of service,” he said. “Our goal is to have a smooth transition. We don’t want to displace any of the employees that are there.”
Rodgers said the goal is to open the station by the end of July. Work has begun on the site on Relco Drive and Highway 20.
Rodgers said he hopes the relocation of Chevron will at least dampen some of the controversy that has surrounded the McDonald’s development.
“We hope that everybody is happy with it,” he said “We’re not adding another gas station (to Sisters).”
The station will have eight gasoline fueling positions and two diesel positions, Moss said. It will be part of the footprint of the McDonald’s development.
Moss said he is unsure exactly what will happen to the existing Chevron property.
It will almost certainly be decommissioned as a gas station.
“The property is worth more as an alternative use,” Moss said.
That doesn’t necessarily mean it will be up for sale.
“I’m not sure it’s going to be on the market, to be honest with you,” he said.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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