Sheetz is now looking to another Macomb County community as it continues to expand its preliminary presence into southeast Michigan.

According to information published in a Macomb Daily legal advertisement, the Altoona, Pa.-based chain is looking to build a 24-hour fuel center/convenience store on what is now vacant land on the southwest corner of Van Dyke Avenue and 22 Mile Road in Shelby Township.

Shelby Township Supervisor Rick Stathakis did not respond to requests for comment on the development, while Stanley Grot, the township clerk, told The Macomb Daily he hasn’t made up his mind yet.

The legal ad says the developer, Skilken Gold of Columbus, Ohio is proposing a conditional rezoning to change the zoning from O-1 (professional office) and C-1 (local retail business) to C-2 (linear retain business), and a site plan special land use.

Shelby Township’s Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the issue at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25 to receive more information from the applicant and to listen to what area residents and business owners have to say.

The property is currently owned by an LLC known as PKS 22 Holding, which purchased the land in April for $2.2 million, according to property tax records.

Sheetz provides made-to-order sandwiches and salads, which are ordered through touch-screen terminals. All Sheetz convenience stores are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

News of the Shelby Township location follows an Oct. 30 vote by the Fraser City Council to allow an $8 million-plus development to replace a long vacant bank on the southwest corner of Utica and 14 Mile roads.

For the Fraser store, plans call for the family-owned company to demolish the former State Bank of Fraser and construct a 24-hour store that will include a gas station and restaurant. Fraser councilmembers heard nearly five hours of discussion from about 30 speakers before voting 5-2 to allow the fuel center to proceed.

Sheetz agreed to remove a drive-thru from the Fraser site in response to neighbors’ concerns about noise, increase the total number of trees for landscaping from 83 to 100, and erect a 6-foot-tall masonry wall to replace a wood fence to serve as a screen from residential homes.

The first Michigan gas station and convenience store opened amid much fanfare in Romulus in August. In mid-October, the company announced locations planned for 31925 Van Dyke, Warren; 19001 E. Nine Mile, Eastpointe, and 2103 W. Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti Township.

Sheetz previously said it would open two locations in Taylor, an additional store in Warren and others in Macomb and Chesterfield townships.

According to Sheetz’s president and CEO Travis Sheetz, the company plans to open up to 60 locations in Michigan in the next five to six years, and is establishing an office in Farmington Hills.

The public hearing will be held at the Shelby Township Municipal Building, 52700 Van Dyke, just south of 24 Mile Road.