Bucc-ee's calls for $60M in Anderson infrastructure improvements.

• Date: 20 April 2022

Billboards along Anderson's stretch of Interstate 85 alert drivers to a gas station more than 100 miles away in Adairsville, Ga.

Some billboards are stacked on top of each other, both featuring the same iconic ballcapped beaver haloed in gold.

All introduce South Carolinians to the notion of a gas station that's not just a gas station but a Texas shopping mall with 120 gas nozzles and everything from kolache pastries to deer corn.

But as much as Bucc-ee's has a cult following across the Southeast, the billboards aren't there to just reel South Carolinian travelers into Georgia.

After two years of construction, Bucc-ee's on May 16 will open a 53,200-square-foot station off Florence's interchange 170 on Interstate 95. The travel center, built in a 500-acre multi-use park, will be the 38th in the Bucc-ee's line-up and is slated to hire 200 full-time employees...