This downtown Huntersville store is closing after more than six decades. What to know

After 63 years, one of Huntersville’s oldest business closed it doors this month to make way for new road construction.

Cashion’s Quik Stop, located at the corner of Gilead and Old Statesville road, was purchased by the town last month for $2.3 million, WSOC reported . The town plans to tear down the convenience store so the two-lane road can be widened.

“As part of building the town hall, we have to have a turn lane there,” Mayor Christy Clark told WSOC. “We need the extra land that the Cashion’s had in order to build that turn lane.”

“We hope to have something wonderful take its place that will, you know, make our downtown even a more special place,” she added.

The store was once owned by Robert Cashion, a Charlotte native who was raised in Cornelius. Cashion established a chain of stores which included four locations in northern Mecklenburg County that employed 30 full- and part-time employees, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.

The Cashion family, known for their charitable donations, gave $50,000 for a new library in Cornelius and donated thousands to schools and nonprofit organizations over the years, the Observer reported.

Clark said the town is in the due diligence phase, and should close on the property in September, WSOC reported.