✔️ CASE STUDY: After Nearly 5 Years Searching SEMO I-55 Corridors, Developer Secures Truck Stop Site
🚛 Client: Experienced truck stop/travel center developer
🗓 Search Duration: Nearly 5 years actively looking along I-55
⚠️ The Challenge: Finding a high-visibility, high-traffic I-55 location with enough acreage to support a full-service truck stop (fuel islands/canopies, ample truck parking, convenience store, and future amenities). Despite years of searching Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas along I-55, nothing was checking all of the boxes.
❌ The Property: 5-acre commercial parcel at the northwest corner of southbound I-55 at Mile Marker 52. Excellent visibility with strong traffic counts and direct access for both northbound and southbound vehicles. Perfect positioning for a truck stop, fuel station, or travel center development.
🌐 The Solution: After nearly 5 years of searching, thousands of miles driven, dozens of property owners contacted, and numerous site visits, a property came up which perfectly matched the buyer’s criteria. Chris Cole connected the motivated developer with the ideal site that offered the highway frontage, access, and development potential they had been seeking. The seller had also planned to develop a c-store, but plans changed.
💯 The Result: Sale successfully closed after thorough due diligence, survey, and a few title hurdles. The buyer/developer plans to bring much-needed services to travelers along I-55 while supporting the local New Madrid/Kewanee communities with jobs and economic activity after the closure of a nearby convenience store and restaurant.
🗝 Key Takeaway: Sometimes the right property takes patience and a lengthy, persistent search. When vision meets location, great deals happen.
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