A new 7-Eleven gas station and store is being built on Berkley Road in Auburndale

Permits filed with Polk County describe a new freestanding 7-Eleven gas station and convenience store at 2897 Berkley Road in Auburndale. The plans cover a 4,852-square-foot store, a 5,180-square-foot fueling canopy, two underground fuel storage tanks, and a dumpster enclosure.

The main new-construction permit is in the inspections stage, which points to active work on the site. Several of the related permits — the canopy, the fuel tanks, and the dumpster enclosure — show as expired in the county records, and a mid-October request to bring temporary power to the vacant site for construction was denied.

What that mix of statuses means for the project's timing isn't spelled out in the records. There is no public opening date.