{"id":17773,"date":"2025-10-28T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17773\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:55:22","slug":"landmark-west-lawn-gas-station-leveled-no-redevelopment-plan-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17773\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark West Lawn gas station leveled; no redevelopment plan yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A familiar landmark at the eastern gateway of West Lawn is gone.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"AA 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)<\/p>\n

The owner-of-record\u2019s address is listed as 134 W. Chocolate Ave. in Hershey, Dauphin County \u2014 the same address as Kazi Foods of New Jersey Inc., which owns several KFC restaurants.<\/p>\n

For decades. Schoellkopf\u2019s was a place where people could fill their vehicle\u2019s fuel tanks, top off propane tanks for gas grills, buy motor oil by the quart and have their vehicles serviced.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A development plan for the site has yet to be submitted, officials said.<\/p>\n

Attempts to reach the Kazi companies were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A familiar landmark at the eastern gateway of West Lawn is gone. The former Schoellkopf Service Center, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,3198,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-17773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-spring-township","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}