MORAINE — An active apartment complex and a vacant Frisch’s could soon turn to rubble as a new gas station awaits approval to take their place.
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The Montgomery County Planning and Zoning Commission will determine the fate of the former Frisch’s on South Dixie Drive in Moraine at their meeting Tuesday night.
People living in the apartment complex next door have said the vacant restaurant has become an eyesore over the last two years.
News Center 7’s Malik Patterson spoke with tenant Charletta Schultz, who said the deteriorating restaurant is not a nice place to live next to.
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Schultz said she knew something would be happening to the Frisch’s soon.
“They marked. They drilled. So, we kind of had some idea something was going on,” Schultz said.
Jeffery Anderson Real Estate is a partner of Wawa gas stations. The real estate group purchased the former Frisch’s, and the apartment complex Shultz’s lives in next to it.
Jeffery Anderson Real Estate wants to turn it into a Wawa gas station, as reported on News Center 7 at 5:30.
Anderson needs Moraine to rezone the area and has an agreement with the apartment complex owner, George Brand.
Brand said in a letter that he intends to offer tenants apartments in other properties he owns.
“It is my intent to offer tenants at 2705 Leigh Place Apartments other apartments on my other two properties as they become available. I would love to retain all my tenants,” Brand said in the letter.
Schultz said the move could be worth it.
“It wouldn’t be so bad. It’s an older building. We have three children, so more space would be sufficient for us,” Schultz said.
Giving the area an upgrade is something Schultz said is necessary and would improve life for her and her neighbors.
“I feel it will definitely be better for the neighborhood, for the area, and hopefully stop a lot of the collisions that are going on. So hopefully somebody will show up on behalf of these neighbors. But I just hope whatever comes out, it’s for the best,” Schultz said.
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