Buc-ee's co-founder: Daytona construction could start this summer
Buc-ee’s is coming to Daytona Beach, and motorists should be able to start filling up at mega-sized gas station/convenience store planned next to the Interstate 95/LPGA Boulevard interchange sometime next year.
So says the Texas-based chain’s co-founder and partial namesake Arch “Beaver” Aplin.
“Our goal is to start construction definitely in 2018 and if we get lucky by the summer of 2018,” he said in a recent phone interview.
“It takes us about a year from start to finish to open — 10 months to build and about six weeks to stock (the store) and train staff.”
Aplin spoke to The News-Journal shortly after the city’s planning board unanimously approved rezoning the 35 acres on the northeast corner of the I-95/LPGA Boulevard interchange, an important first step towards giving his company the green light to start building the 120-pump gas station and 53,300-square-foot “travel convenience center,” which will be bigger than most Publix grocery stores.
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