Mount Kisco Mobil station to modernize with new convenience store

The service station at East Main Street and Lexington Avenue.

By MARTIN WILBUR

The operator of a Mount Kisco service station has plans to rebuild the current convenience store and car repair space into a modern facility for Chestnut Market.

CPD NY Energy Corp., the applicant and the contract vendee, has proposed various site improvements for the Mobil station located at 680 East Main St. at the corner of Lexington Avenue, including a new building where the current store and car repair is located, said its attorney, Brian Sinsabaugh. 

New underground gas tanks will also be installed beneath the pumps, which will be placed in the existing location on the roughly half-acre property. 

Project engineer Marc Petroro said the new building will be virtually the same size as the current 2,009-square-foot operation. Another 35 square feet will be added because the current structure has a slight indentation on the side that faces East Main Street, he said.

Once the current facility is closed for the construction, car repair and maintenance will no longer be offered when the new market opens.

“The proposed conditions are that it will remain a gas station with a convenience store, but there will be no more automotive repair anywhere on the property,” Petroro said.

Other work at the site will include landscaping, new striping for the parking spaces, bollards around the building, a new trash enclosure, a propane cage and an ice bunker that will store bags of ice that will be sold to customers. The building will use LED lights, Petroro said. 

There will be 13 parking spaces available for the public, two more than what the code requires.

A more modern pole sign will be installed in the corner of the property closest to the corner of East Main Street and Lexington Avenue.

The entire site will be closed during construction in an attempt to minimize the time the gas station will be closed, said Tom Kievit, construction manager for CPD NY Energy. He did not provide an estimated length of time for the work to be completed once all approvals are obtained.

Building Inspector, William Seegmulle, said the applicant will likely have to obtain a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals to account for insufficient setback along the north property line. Approval from the Architectural Review Board will be needed as well.

This is the second gas station in the village to submit plans to expand or modernize their convenience store in the past month. American Gas service station located at 280 East Main St. appeared before the Planning Board to expand its retail shop last month.