HADLEY — Construction on a Pride gas station and convenience store at the site of the old Aqua Vita restaurant, just east of the Coolidge Bridge on Route 9, resumed this week.
A Springfield-based company will build a 7,477-square-foot convenience store, which will have a beer and wine license and a fuel pumping station.
In 2008, Pride spent more than $3 million to buy the land and buildings between 15 and 29 Russell St., including the longtime restaurant, the former Aqua Vitae Motel, a home formerly owned by Tanya and Robert Thomas, the Frank Balicki estate home and a home previously owned by Aqua Vitae owners Jung Si Jung and Yeong Ja Jung.
The structures were all demolished in late 2015, with the site largely cleared of trees.