Despite several angry nearby homeowners and property owners, Love’s Travel Stop opens.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce and city of Joliet economic development director Paulina Martinez celebrated the ribbon-cutting for the impressive and well-landscaped multi-million-dollar construction project on Joliet’s far east side. The end result is the addition of Joliet’s very own Love’s Travel Center at the Interstate 80 exit for Briggs Street.
Love’s General Manager Cade McDougal told Joliet Patch that his new Love’s Travel Center, which has a New Lenox Road address, has 75 employees. The property is massive. There are 91 parking stalls in the back for semi-tractor trailers and nine diesel fuel pumps for the trucks. The inside of Love’s features a Hardee’s Charbroiled Burgers fast-food restaurant. There is also the Love’s Fresh Kitchen offering deli sandwiches, burgers, chicken wraps and more. It is also open 24 hours a day, seven days a week…