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Sheetz plans store on Upward Road across from QuikTrip

The city planning board granted conditional approval on June 11 for a new Sheetz on Upward Road at Ballenger Road across from the QT. [DYLAN SHEEHAN/Hendersonville Lightning]

By Lightning Reports, Published: June 10, 2026

Expanding its footprint in the area, Sheetz is proposing a 6,139-square-foot convenience store-gas station on Upward Road at Ballenger Road across from the QuikTrip.

The Hendersonville Planning Board voted on June 11 to approve the site plan on the condition that Sheetz receive a variance from the Zoning Board of Adjustment for seven deficiencies planning staffers cited or show that it has remedied the deficiencies.

The 2.65-acre parcel, zoned Commercial Highway Mixed Use, is part of a 31-acre tract of cleared vacant land owned by Quattlebaum Properties LLC. Blue Ridge Engineering PLLC is the project engineer and applicant. The site plan calls for 44 parking spaces, exceeding the 31 required by city ordinance, sidewalks along Upward Road, a new access street and 64 trees and 284 shrubs for landscaping. The development would be served by city water and sewer. The Sheetz store would become the sixth convenience store-gas station on Upward Road near the I-26 interchange.

The N.C. Department of Transportation initially required construction of a roundabout at the intersection as a condition of approval but later agreed to allow a traffic signal instead on the condition that Sheetz dedicate right-of-way for a future roundabout. Any additional development that generates traffic at the intersection would be required to fund roundabout construction. Sheetz representatives at the planning board meeting confirmed that the company is willing to dedicated land for a roundabout if it comes to pass that one is required.

The new C-store does not require a rezoning. Once the company resolves the zoning code deficiencies and gets city planners' blessing of its final site it can begin construction.

The Upward Road Sheetz is the second by the Pennsylvania-based chain in Henderson County as gas stations specializing in prepared foods continue to stake a claim at or near I-26 interchanges. QT opened its first location in the county last year and Greenville, S.C.-based Spinx has moved aggressively into the county. It's opened stores on Asheville Highway and Upward Road and has a third under construction on Seventh Avenue East on the old Four Seasons Cinema parking lot.