A familiar landmark at the eastern gateway of West Lawn is gone.
The former Schoellkopf Service Center, a gas station and repair shop that operated for half a century at Penn and Morwood avenues in Spring Township, was recently torn down after sitting vacant since 2021.
According to Berks County online property records, the 0.9-acre property, which carries the address of 2005 Penn Ave., was sold that year to Kazi Family Pennsylvania LLC, based in Hershey, for $765,000.
A former Sunoco gas station at Penn and Morwood avenues in West Lawn has been demolished but a development plan for the site has yet to be submitted. (BILL UHRICH/READING EAGLE)
The owner-of-record’s address is listed as 134 W. Chocolate Ave. in Hershey, Dauphin County — the same address as Kazi Foods of New Jersey Inc., which owns several KFC restaurants.
For decades. Schoellkopf’s was a place where people could fill their vehicle’s fuel tanks, top off propane tanks for gas grills, buy motor oil by the quart and have their vehicles serviced.
Township officials said they issued a demolition permit to the property owner this year. The site, including the building and the familiar Sunoco fuel-pump canopy, was cleared in late summer is now surrounded by a nylon mesh fence.
A development plan for the site has yet to be submitted, officials said.
Attempts to reach the Kazi companies were unsuccessful.