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Come Nov. 30, the Unocal 76 station on Mecartney Road near its intersection with Island Drive at Harbor Bay Landing shopping mall’s southwest corner will join other Bay Farm retailers that have bitten the dust in recent years, like the CVS (formerly Long’s) drug store across the parking lot.

Blame the shutdown of Bay Farm’s only fuel stop on the estimated $2 million price tag to remove the station’s old single-walled underground gas storage tank and replace it with a state-mandated double-walled one — an environmental upgrade. That’s just too high for station owner Simon Kim.

When Kim was first notified several years ago that he needed a double-walled tank, the cost was $1 million. He says at the time he thought he could handle that.

“But the COVID (pandemic) hit, so p

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