24-hour Casey’s to be built on Sumner Avenue

​By KELSEY HAUGEN

CNA staff reporter khaugen@crestonnews.com

A larger, 24-hour Casey’s General Store is scheduled to be built on the southwest corner at the intersection of North Sumner Avenue and West Townline Street in Creston.

The new store will be at least 4,200 square feet, according to Bill Walljasper, chief financial officer at the Casey’s corporate office.

“It’ll be a good-sized building – similar to the new (Casey’s) store in Greenfield,” said Kevin Kruse, Creston public works director.

The 24-hour location will have six gasoline pump islands and one diesel island. Inside, there will be some added amenities now found in newer Casey’s stores.

“The grocery items will be relatively similar, but from a prepared food standpoint, there will be pizza and donuts, made-to-order sub sandwiches, self-serve ice cream, a sit-down area for customers and walk-in beer cooler,” Walljasper said. “Once we’re able to get a beer cave in, it’ll allow us to sell some more craft beers, which seem to resonate with our customers.”

While Kruse said he has heard Casey’s may eliminate one or two of the other Casey’s locations in Creston because of the new store, nothing yet has been officially released.

“My hunch is that it will replace one or more of the existing stores,” Walljasper said. “We have multiple stores in the (Creston) community, and some are older assets that may not be as efficient to service the community, so we think there’s an opportunity to build a more efficient site in the community. There are better ways to serve the community than having six or seven older stores.”

So far, there is no time table for construction, but Walljasper said Casey’s does have ground under contract.

A planning and zoning meeting for the new Casey’s is 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, in City Hall.

The meeting is open to the public.