PINE BLUFF, Ark. -- Ten former Git-N-Go convenience stores in Arkansas that closed last year will soon be re-opened, according to a representative of the stores' new owner.
Sigma Properties LLC, purchased the stores in July. The company plans to begin opening the stores this month, Don Jenkins, an attorney representing the company, told the Pine Bluff Commercial.
The 10 stores were purchased by separate corporations, he added.
The stores will offer fuel, and traditional convenience store items, he said, [image-nocss] and additional food items will be determined on a store-by-store basis.
Seven stores in Jefferson County, one in Lincoln County and two in Lonoke County were purchased by the company, according to Jenkins. The stores are in Altheimer, as well as Grady, Humnoke and Lonoke.
The c-stores were closed in 2005 by the former owner, Mallard Express LLC. The stores were placed on the market in April 2004 because of economic concerns, according to Gregg Graves, managing member of the company. Between 140 and 160 people worked at the stores when they closed, Graves told the newspaper.
As reported in CSP Daily News in late December 2005, the owner of Mallard Express, which operated 13 Shell-branded gas stations, filed for bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, with a debt of nearly $4.5 million.
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