Photo by Deb Gau Storm-damaged panels from the canopy at the Cenex ExpressWay gas station in Marshall were loaded onto a trailer for removal Tuesday morning. The Cenex ExpressWay will be closing at the end of operating hours today, said Dan Ortmann, director of retail operations for Staples Enterprises.

MARSHALL — A second gas station on East College Drive in Marshall is closing down.

This time, it’s the Cenex ExpressWay. The station will close for good at the end of operating hours tonight, said Dan Ortmann, director of retail operations for Staples Enterprises, the company that operates the station.

Ortmann said the property is being sold for future development. However, he could not share further details on who the new owners would be, or what the property would be developed into.

Around seven employees would be affected by the gas station closing, he said.

It will be “business as usual” at Cenex ExpressWay up until closing time today, Ortmann said.

On Tuesday, customers were still stopping at the station for gas. However, workers were loading some panels from the edge of the gas station canopy onto a trailer for removal.

Ortmann said the panels were damaged in storms earlier this summer, and were being cleared out of storage ahead of the gas station closing.

ExpressWay, headquartered in Windom, has several gas station and convenience store locations in southern Minnesota and South Dakota. Staples Oil Co., Inc., started as a family-owned fuel distribution business based in Windom, and expanded into the convenience store business in the 1980s, according to the ExpressWay website.

According to Lyon County land records, Staples & Staples, LLC, has owned the Cenex station property on East College Drive since 2008. As of Tuesday afternoon, no new sale of the property had been recorded by the county.

The Cenex ExpressWay will be the second gas station on East College Drive that has closed this year. In June, the Speedway station at College Drive and Bruce Street closed when the property was bought by Kwik Trip.

At the time, a Kwik Trip representative said the company planned to build a 10,000 square-foot convenience store on the property. The construction was planned to be completed next summer.