An independent Truck Stop Feasibility Study evaluating a 1,000-space interstate travel center and truck stop in Scott Depot, West Virginia.
SCOTT DEPOT, West Virginia — Wert-Berater, Inc., an independent feasibility study consulting firm serving lenders and government agencies since 1998, has completed a Truck Stop Feasibility Study in Scott Depot, West Virginia.
Wert-Berater served as independent feasibility consultant to the lender and USDA Rural Development. Party names are withheld consistent with the confidential nature of underwriting and capital-advisory work; figures represent the project as evaluated at the study date.
A corridor-based freight-service asset — not a conventional highway retail outparcel — evaluated under USDA Regulation 5001 for whether the site, at scale, can convert national truck-parking scarcity into durable operating revenue. The approximately 60-acre build envelope sits within a 366-acre tract at a major interstate interchange, with the largest capital allocations directed at exactly the elements that drive freight-service economics: parking, fueling, and the driver-services building.
1,000 truck parking spaces, 30 high-speed diesel pumps with storage and canopy, 20 gasoline lanes, a main building of approximately 50,000 square feet, a truck wash, and CAT scales — a program built around parking and driver utility rather than fuel sales alone, positioned to capture FHWA-documented overnight and mandated-rest demand.
$25,000,000 proposed loan plus $9,000,000 imputed land equity identified at study date — leaving a $14,571,365 capital-stack gap (≈30% of TPC) documented as the principal open item.
The defining challenge was capital-stack honesty: against $48.6 million of total project cost, identified sources covered roughly 70 percent. The study states this plainly — the project is economically justified in concept and projected operating scale, but cannot be characterized as fully financeable without qualification until the $14.6 million gap is resolved. Strong operations do not by themselves establish feasibility when the capital stack is incomplete.
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