HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jun. 10, 2025) – Perhaps Speedway can do what Kum and Go could not.
Willow Partners LLC will go before the Holland Planning Commission on Tuesday evening to petition a site review of a 5.3-acre site near the junction of US-31 and Lincoln Avenue (M-40), in order to build a Speedway-branded 7-Eleven fueling/convenience store. Besides the retail outlet, a seven-dispenser auto canopy would be built, along with a full access driveway onto Lincoln Avenue.
The site is adjacent to the Willow Home Mobile Home Park, but is not used for manufactured housing. A similar proposal by True North Energy for a Kum and Go had been approved by planners two years ago, but with only seven Council members in attendance instead of nine, there wasn’t a two-thirds majority to override the objection of Mayor Pro Tem Scott Corbin.
The matter went back to the planning commission, and another vote to rezone the property passed last August, with Corbin not attending that meeting. However, Kum and Go, which had been seeking permission to build other outlets off of East 24th Avenue in Holland, and Quincy Street on Holland’s North Side, saw none of those plans come to reality before it was purchased in January by Missouri-based Maverik, which is rebranding all such outlets, including those in the Grand Rapids area, by the end of 2025.
An online link to the agenda and supporting documents for the Holland Planning Commission’s 6 PM monthly meeting, in Council Chambers at Holland City Hall (270 S. River Av.), is here.
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