30 Central Square - From Google Maps (Nov 2016)

30 Central Square - From Google Maps (Oct 2012)
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30 Central Square - From Google Maps (Nov 2016)
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30 Central Square - From Google Maps (Nov 2016)
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Chelmsford service station razed
http://chelmsford.wickedlocal.com/article/20151214/NEWS/151218012

By Margaret Smith / msmith@wickedlocal.com

Passersby in the town center recently may have noticed that a 13-year landmark is no more -- Rudy’s Fuel & Auto Service at 30 Central Square, the triangular crossroads of Route 27 and Route 4.

But while rubble and fencing now occupy the site, Rudy’s in fact hasn’t gone very far -- with a new Citgo gas station and service station at 8 Littleton Road, on Route 110, less than a mile away.

Town Manager Paul Cohen said Standard Oil Company applied for permits to demolish the building and remove gas pumps and fuel tanks at the site, which had stood vacant for several weeks. Fire Chief Gary Ryan said Standard Oil applied in care of Alliance Energy, a company based in Waltham.

Cohen said once the fuel tanks are removed, Standard Oil intends to repave and regrade the site to surface levels. However, no other plans for the site have been filed with the town at this time, Cohen said.

The fuel and service station was a Mobil affiliate.

The parcel on which the service station stood until recently is owned in part by Rudy Alvarez, owner of Rudy’s Fuel & Auto Service, and Alliance Energy. Alvarez said he owns 75 percent of the property, including a part on which a rental property still sits.

That's all great information...I'd still like a town official to comment on whether or not the town can reach out to the owner in an attempt to have the lot cleaned up a little?". The lot is smack in the middle of the town center and it would be nice it the Town and owner could discuss a modest clean up of the parcel.

Seems like someone cut the grass a little at some point in July. It is still an eyesore of sorts and not a nice looking "open space" it could/should be.