Citgo on Ninth Street goes out of business

An on-again, off-again gasoline service station in Lawrence appears closed for good.

For now, anyway.

A Citgo station at 2005 W. Ninth St. greeted potential customers Friday with a handwritten sign declaring that the place was “out of business” and “shut down forever.”

The station is registered to a company known as Darshan’s Kansas Stations One Inc., based in Mequon, Wis.

Calls to Mequon-based Bulk Petroleum Corp., whose president is Darshan Dhaliwal, were not returned late Friday afternoon.

The station, at the southeast corner of Ninth and Iowa streets, no longer has products inside its small cashier’s booth.

No prices are posted on its Citgo pole sign along Iowa Street.

Intermittent closings have been familiar to customers who might stop by the station, only to find that it did not have gasoline in its tanks.