Love’s Travel Stops plans East Alamosa development – Alamosa Citizen

Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is planning an East Alamosa development near the recently rebuilt intersection of Hwys 160 and 17. The company, headquartered in Oklahoma City, would be the latest national convenience store chain to arrive and add to the infill projects happening around Alamosa.

The Alamosa County Board of Commissioners will take up Love’s Travel project’s major site plan application at its meeting Wednesday, Oct. 23. The application calls for a development that includes a gas station and convenience retail store. 

As part of the development, Love’s is proposing 47 standard parking spaces; 3 accessible spaces, including 1 van accessible space; and 7 spaces for RVs or buses, according to the application filed with Alamosa County.

Love’s is not proposing any parking spaces for tractor-trailers/semis since it’s not planning the new store as a truck stop. Three of the RV parking spaces are designated for overnight parking and will provide utility connections, the application states.

A few neighbors to the project have voiced concern to the county planning commission about the idea of a truck stop coming to the property, which has been vacant since 2018. Three neighbors cited concerns of crime, loitering of people and vehicles, and traffic.

The county planning commission held public hearings in September and October on the project, and on a 3-2 vote recommended approval by the county commissioners.

Love’s purchased the property in February and has been working with the city of Alamosa and Colorado Department of Transportation, among other local government agencies, to address site-specific considerations for the development. Those include issues like fueling stations, sidewalk installation and landscaping, and access to the convenience store.

The East Alamosa project comes following the 2022 opening of Maverik on the west end of town on Hwy 160. 

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