Demolition has begun on the Kwik Fill at the intersection of Routes 257 and 322 in Cranberry. Crews put up fencing around the property earlier this week. It has been shared at previous Venango County Regional Planning Commission meetings that the property was purchased in October 2023 by Brucetown Farm Service Inc., of Morgantown, West Virginia, who plans to construct a new, larger gas station that includes a Dairy Queen on the former Kwik Fill site. The company owns a chain of BFS gas stations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio.
Kwik Fill demolition begins
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