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Gas-Food Market Chain Files Applications to Build in Bayport

Planning board hearing on December 5 on QuickChek proposal for Snedecor Avenue and Montauk Highway location.

A NY-NJ metro-based gas station-food market chain has filed two applications with the Town of Islip for a special permit to operate a gas station and a special permit to operate a convenience store at the southwest corner of Snedecor Avenue and Montauk Highway in Bayport.

QuickChek’s applications were initially scheduled for a planning board public hearing on Thursday, Oct. 24 but the company requested an adjournment to the board’s Thursday, Dec. 5 meeting, according to Islip Town officials.

The site now houses a home, a transmission business and auto sales. QuickChek is proposing a 6,584-square-foot building with 14 indoor seats and eight outdoor seats and eight fuel pumps.

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Company officials are expected to present their plan at a Bayport Civic Association meeting on November 19, according to Bob Draffin, BCA president. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Bayport Methodist Church.

The project would be QuickChek’s first Long Island location.

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As Patch reported in September, company officials initially reached out to the Bayport-Blue Point Chamber of Commerce and the Bayport Civic Association to discuss the possible store project.

QuickChek is a family-owned company founded in 1967 that runs more than 130 stores throughout New Jersey and southern New York, and employs more than 3,500 workers.

In addition to gas pump bays, the locations offer fresh dairy, sliced deli and fill-in grocery products in a local community superette format, as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner takeout and catering services. Stores also offer a full pharmacy service.

According to its website, proposed locations for a QuickChek gas station/store require at least two acres, traffic of 25,000 cars daily, a corner property with signal intersection, room for a 5,400 to 7,000 square foot building and at least 40-car parking capacity as well as 24-hour operation use.

The gas station/convenience store would be substantially bigger than the Hess station located in Bayport just west on Montauk Highway, noted Draffin when speaking about the project in September.

“It would be the fifth gas station in Bayport,” noted Draffin. “[Montauk Highway] is becoming a bank, gas station, a bank, gas station [roadway].”


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