The Hess gas station on Main Street in Reisterstown has been vacant since the summer of 2011. It closed its doors and shut off the pumps months before Wawa opened next door.
With so many nearby gas stations, including the Wawa with its indoor convenience store, the site might not be dispensing gas again in the near future.
What would you like to see in this vacant space? Tell us in the comments.
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K.Adderly Reisterstiwn Resident
And how would they compete with WaWa? WaWa would just offer all coffee drinks for $1 as they lowered their gas prices initially to drive the BP and Gulf stations out of business.
A hobby store that sells model trains and model kits vs fabric and sewing needs Maybe a small Reisterstown historical musuem? ANYTHING but another abandoned lot with a skeleton of a gas station to sit for 20 years before somebody puts up temporary fencing and knocks it down to a rubble pile and leaves it indefinatly. Heck - leave it as a gas station - the competition would drive gas prices down!
First someone thinks it's a good idea to build a car wash or a bowling alley? Really? If that's such a great business plan how come the ones in the Reisterstown Shopping center didnt flourish? Car washes are a thing of the past as is bowling. That horrid idea is only out done by the "police substation" idea. Really? You want a police substation not 3 miles away from the POLICE STATION? I sure hope you arent responsible for spending our tax money. My idea.....put in an all glass jail. That way when the idiots do wrong they can be housed there. Their thug friends walking/driving/MTA'ing all over Reisterstown can see the jailed thug friends and that might cut down on crime. Bowling alley? What is this 1950? Not to mention....the lot is really really small.