Citing safety, environmental and preservation concerns, neighbors who live near Wilmington’s historic Jackson Inn are opposing a plan to raze the 67-year-old building for the construction of a Dash In convenience store with a dozen gas pumps.
Dash In, owned by the Willis Group, operates more than 60 convenience stores in the Mid-Atlantic region.
It is seeking approval during a March 17 New Castle County Historic Review Board Hearing to demolish the existing, vacant 2,422-square-foot bar and another approximately 1,000-square-foot vacant two-story, 1953 carriage house on the land that’s at the northwesterly corner of Lancaster Avenue and DuPont Road…