Lucky Seven Truck Stop Planned for Lucky Seven Site

LOCK HAVEN – Preliminary plans were unveiled Monday night for the city’s first truck stop. The location would be the old Lucky Seven store just off Paul Mack Boulevard.

Project developer Sonny Singh appeared before Lock Haven City Council and he received council’s approval for the proposed transfer of a beer/liquor license from D & R Bottomline LLC in Dunnstable Township to Singh’s VASAS, Inc. of 360 E. Walnut St.

Singh and attorney Paul Ryan discussed plans for the proposed Lucky Seven Truck Stop. It would front on Walnut Street, just up the street from a new access road being constructed into the First Quality Tissue plant nearby in Castanea Township.

Singh said other permits must be obtained for the truck stop to become a reality. If the project stays on course, he said, it would be completed and in operation about a year from now. Beer and wine would be sold on the premises which would also house a Connecticut-based fast food outlet,Wayback Burgers. The company currently operates 14 such restaurants in eastern Pennsylvania. He said the project will result in between 25 and 35 new jobs.

Mayor Bill Baney heralded the announcement and said he hoped the new facility would be “the first of many developments” along Walnut Street.

He pointed out the current city garage site will be put up for sale once the highway department transfer is completed to the city’s hilltop facility in the old PennDOT maintenance garage.

The Lucky Seven store closed early in 2017 after the Young family had operated it for 37 years. That structure, to be demolished, dates to 1902 when it began operations as the Winner Packing Plant.