Proposed Love’s Truck Stop Meets Opposition
Date Posted: September 26, 2022
Posted In: Projects,
From Leader Publications: The Love’s Travel Stops and Country stores company is working toward building a truck stop in Herculaneum, but not everyone in the city is putting out a welcome mat.
Herculaneum officials said a Love’s Travel Stops representative recently visited them to talk about plans to construct a Love’s gas station, convenience store and truck stop on 28 acres west of I-55 and north of the roundabout at McNutt Street and Providence Way.
As of Monday, Sept. 19, however, the company had not applied for any permits, Herculaneum officials said at that night’s Herculaneum Board of Aldermen meeting.
Months-old rumors about the Love’s project planned for the city’s third ward have spurred residents from the nearby Providence subdivision to start an online petition calling for the city to block the company from building a Love’s facility at the site.
The “Keep Love’s away from our community” petition is on the change.org website, and as of Tuesday morning, Sept. 20, more than 800 people had signed it.
A group of at least 60 people from the Providence subdivision attended the Sept. 19 Board of Aldermen meeting to protest the project, but only about a third of them were allowed into the City Hall board room due to occupancy regulations.
“We live in Providence,” Scott Siegel said prior to the meeting. “We’re not against a truck stop going in in Herculaneum. We’re against it going in at the entrance of our subdivision.”