The TA Wheeler Ridge location offers two food courts with seating for 112 patrons at each location with additional outdoor seating that can accommodate 32. There are five quick-serve restaurant concepts [image-nocss] customers can choose from including Burger King with drive-thru, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Subway and Popeye's Chicken. TA operates nearly 230 quick-serve restaurants across the United States and Canada.
In addition to the food court, a 4,000-square-foot convenience store offers a wide selection of competitively priced, brand name beverages, snacks and travel products. Customers will find everything they need from gifts and souvenirs to electronics and driver supplies.
Inside the travel store is TA Cafe Express. This grab-and-go food and beverage concept offers customers a variety of gourmet coffees, cappuccinos and hot chocolates. TA Cafe Express also features breakfast sandwiches, pastries and fresh deli sandwiches.
The new TA Wheeler Ridge location features Chevron gasoline with 24 fueling positions under the canopy.
The site is also WiFi enabled with reasonable hourly, daily and monthly rates.
The Tejon site is positioned to serve the approximately 121,000 commercial and passenger vehicles passing the location each day on California's most vital north-south corridor.
The new TA Travel Center features significant amenities for consumer motorists, including a 24-pump Chevron station; two food courts featuring QSR offerings from Burger King, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Subway and Popeye's Chicken. The new center also includes a c-store featuring a TA Cafe Express.
Professional drivers will find the TA facilities cater to their truck repair and maintenance needs with a four-bay truck service center that is open 24-hours, seven days a week. A deli and retail store is also located in the shop building. Other conveniences at the site include eight diesel lanes, a 221-space truck parking area, emergency road service through RoadSquad, a TV room featuring a surround sound system and a 60" plasma TV, a game room, Interstate WiFi throughout the facility, CAT Scales, 10 private showers and more.
The new travel center replaces an existing TA travel center at TIC that was located adjacent to the development site on the east side of the freeway. Now that the new center is operational, the former TA facility will be razed and its site prepared for future development of additional commercial space.
On the western side of the freeway, TIC already features more than 60-acres of retail offerings, including a Petro Travel Plaza with Iron Skillet Restaurant, Chevron, Best Western Hotel, In-N-Out Burger, Starbucks, Panda Express, McDonald's and Wendy's.
"The continued investment of Tejon Ranch and its world-class partners demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to Kern County," said Richard Chapman, president and CEO of Kern Economic Development Corp. "Tejon Ranch's travel centers provide local construction and permanent job opportunities for our community. They are also an important component of the county's travel and tourism economy, collecting sales and gas tax revenue from the millions of travelers using I-5, providing a critical economic stimulus for Kern County in these challenging times."
Tejon Ranch is a diversified real-estate development and agribusiness company, the principal asset of which is its 270,000-acre land holding located approximately 60 miles north of Los Angeles and 30 miles south of Bakersfield. For more information on the company, please go to www.tejonranch.com. For more information on Tejon Industrial Complex, please go to www.tejonranch.com/tic.
Westlake, Ohio-based TA is a leading national chain of travel centers in 41 states and Canada under the TravelCenters of America and Petro brands. With convenient locations on interstate exits, TA offers its customers diesel and gasoline fueling services, full and quick-service restaurants, heavy-truck maintenance services, 24-hour c-stores, electronic communication (WiFi) and other servicesall within large, high-traffic facilities.
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