Historic gas station faces potential changes at Charleston zoning meeting

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A 1950s gas station turned restaurant is a key agenda item at the city’s board of zoning appeals meeting on Tuesday.

Since the owners of Fuel Cantina announced their closing, the Historic Charleston Foundation is advocating to preserve a piece of Charleston’s midcentury modern history on Rutledge Street. The foundation is opposing the development phase in hopes to keep a part of the peninsula’s history alive, specifically in the Cannonborough-Elliotborough neighborhood.

“It’s a snapshot in time, and they are neat architectural remnants from the 50s,” Lisa Jones, the Director of Advocacy for the Historic Charleston Foundation, said…

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