The Demise of Citgo #11799145, Riverview, Michigan
This post will look at retail in Riverview, Wayne County, MI. Citgo #11799145 12647 Pennsylvania Road, Riverview, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 16.6 miles, approx. 25 minutes This gas station's story started in 1955, as that was when a Mobil gas station opened at the southeast corner of Pennsylvania and Quarry Roads. The address? 12647 Pennsylvania Road. Competing with it across Quarry Road was Kreger's (and later Chuck's) Standard at 12705 Pennsylvania Road. That station disappeared without fanfare in the late 1970s (not even being given the chance to convert to Amoco), with a Lawson's convenience store (later converted to Dairy Mart and currently Circle K) built on the site in 1980. As for the Mobil, it had quietly become a Union 76 by the early 1980s. In 1997, the station flipped to Citgo under a 10-year contract, which ended in 2007 with another switch to Valero (which was beginning to expand into Michigan around that time) under a ne...