Fargo is getting another Kwik Star this fall, and we at Great States Construction could not be more excited to be the ones building it (you are welcome).
Construction on the metro’s seventh Kwik Trip/Kwik Star began in May and the site is quickly taking shape.
Opatril Concrete handled the stem wall and initial concrete work, Magnum Electric is running conduit, and fuel tanks have been placed underground.
Did You Know? To avoid confusion with another brand, Kwik Trip is known as Kwik Star in Iowa, Illinois, and the Dakotas.
By The Numbers
Kwik Trip is serious about having enough fuel. Crews installed five tanks holding a combined 76,000 gallons of fuel. To put that into perspective, that’d be enough fuel to fill 5,700 Toyota Corollas who could then drive a combined 97 trips around the Earth. We can only hope that those drivers were part of Kwik Rewards.
The 11,000-square-foot store also includes 51 parking spaces and an attached car wash because nobody likes a dirty car after a fill-up.
Great States Construction Senior Project Manager Mark Singleton was part of the team on last year’s builds in Fargo, Moorhead, and Dilworth. He knows these projects inside and out.
“Even though they look very similar, each Kwik Trip or Kwik Star is really their own project,” Mark said. “Every site is different with its own unique challenges. Our goal, though, is to make sure the guest experience is unmistakably Kwik Trip no matter where they visit.”
When the doors open this fall, it will have everything you expect. Glazers. The Karuba coffee station. And, yes, the world famous chicken (sandwich, tender, and original fried) that you have been thinking about since you pulled into the parking lot.
As coworkers at Kwik Trip say: see you next time.