The soon-to-be Kwik Trip convenience store and gas station is shown still under construction in this photo from Sept. 30. (R. R. Branstrom/Daily Press)

ESCANABA — The Upper Peninsula’s newest Kwik Trip, going into where Super One grocery store used to be at 501 N. Lincoln Road in Escanaba, is set to open Wednesday, Nov. 12.

After exhausting its life as a Super One grocery store in 2017, the property sat vacant before its fate was handed to the City of Escanaba Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. With utilities disconnected, the property was determined blighted.

Though the city had conversations about building a hotel on the site, it was Kwik Trip that ultimately gained approval to develop there. Kwik Trip, a La Crosse, Wis.-based chain of convenience store/gas stations, bought the prope

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