Chevron spending $1 Million for new Northside location

Land at 556 Northside Drive will be redeveloped into a Chevron gas station and convenience store, with two tenant spaces, according to several building permits.

An estimated $1 million will be spent on the project.

Hill’s Atlanta Paint and Body Shop, an auto body repair shop since 1992, will be demolished to make way for the Chevron gas station.

How do you spend a million dollars building a gas station and two tenant spaces?

You spend $30K for demolishing the structure on the land you want to build on and another $927K constructing the gas station itself.

Which begs the question: how are they going to make their money back? Perhaps gas at $100 a gallon?

And who’s going to spend the retail coin to lease space attached to a gas station? Call us naive but we can’t picture Jonathan Adler opening a boutique attached to a Chevron.

But then again, we’ve never opened a gas station. Maybe the costs are just hard to stomach considering location?