Gas Stations With Real Estate in Lake City
Fee-simple operating stations combining business, real estate, and fuel equipment along US-90, SR 47, and infill neighborhood locations.

Columbia County • North Florida
The Gas Station Group brokers the sale, purchase, and lease of gas stations, convenience stores, and fuel-related commercial real estate in Lake City and across North Florida. Led by Bobby Berrido, CCIM, CMAA — confidential representation for operators, investors, and developers.
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(305) 518-1545Lake City is a North Florida market of roughly 12,329 residents in Columbia County. Fuel demand here is shaped by I-75 / I-10 interchange trucking, distribution and logistics, and regional medical — the specific mix of traffic that determines gallon throughput, c-store basket size, and long-run resale value for every station in the city.
Access into and out of Lake City runs through I-75, I-10, US-90, and US-441. Primary commercial corridors — where nearly every institutional-grade gas station transaction in the city sits — include US-90, SR 47, US-441, and Baya Ave. When we advise buyers and sellers in Lake City, our underwriting starts from these corridors: which sites capture inbound commuter flow, which capture destination retail, and which capture pass-through highway trade.
The I-75 and I-10 interchange makes Lake City one of the strongest high-flow diesel and truck-stop markets in North Florida — travel-center demand here rivals metros many times its size.
We work all fuel-real-estate product types in Lake City: fee-simple gas stations with real estate, ground-leased NNN investments, branded and unbranded dealer stations, convenience stores with and without fuel, and truck stops or high-flow diesel sites where the corridor supports them. Buyers searching for Columbia County gas stations for sale — or Lake City gas stations for lease — see the same inventory, including bank-owned and by-owner opportunities we take to market. Our transactions cover Chevron, Shell, Exxon, Mobil, BP, Marathon, and unbranded programs.
Buy-Side
Buyers acquiring in Lake City typically fall into three profiles: first-time operators stepping out of W-2 or dealership work, multi-site operators consolidating Columbia County portfolios, and 1031/institutional capital deploying into NNN-leased fuel real estate on US-90 or SR 47.
Our buy-side engagement in Lake City begins with acquisition-criteria intake — capital position, gallon target, brand preference, geographic radius, debt structure, and 1031 timing. We then source from a combination of live listings, upcoming inventory, and confidential off-market opportunities statewide.
Related resources: NNN gas stations, gas stations with real estate, and our Florida valuation guide.
Property Types in Lake City
Fee-simple operating stations combining business, real estate, and fuel equipment along US-90, SR 47, and infill neighborhood locations.
Branded and unbranded c-stores with and without fuel — hot food programs, tobacco categories, and lottery-eligible sites across Columbia County.
Diesel-heavy and high-flow sites serving I-75 and I-10 trucking — travel-center-capable pads where zoning supports.
Ground leases, dealer leases, and operating fuel-facility leases for operators seeking entry without full acquisition capital.
Triple-net leased, absentee-owner investment stations underwritten to market cap rates for 1031 replacement or portfolio deployment.
Confidential sell-side representation with blind teasers, NDA-gated OMs, and cap-rate-driven pricing.
Leasing
Not every operator entering Lake City wants to buy. Leasing a gas station in Lake City lets an operator control fuel volume and c-store income on US-90 without funding the real estate. We broker three lease structures here: dealer leases on branded fuel facilities, ground leases on fee-owned pads, and full operating leases where the landlord retains the Columbia County real estate.
Convenience stores for lease in Lake City — with and without fuel — trade on rent-to-inside-sales coverage, tobacco and lottery permits, and remaining brand image obligations. We underwrite each Lake City lease against comparable North Florida rents before an operator signs.
Investment
For passive investors, Lake City presents a range of triple-net leased gas station opportunities — long-term dealer leases, ground-leased pads with major-brand operators, and sale-leaseback structures on operating sites. Investment underwriting turns on tenant credit, lease term remaining, escalations, corner quality on US-90, and environmental status.
For owner-operators, Lake City offers a working combination of I-75 / I-10 interchange trucking demand and distribution and logistics traffic — the exact mix that supports both fuel-margin economics and c-store inside sales. Our team benchmarks every Lake City deal against comparable transactions across North Florida before pricing.
Sell-Side
Selling a Lake City gas station is not the same as listing generic commercial real estate. Employees, wholesale suppliers, jobber contracts, franchise agreements, and c-store vendors all become at risk the moment a sale becomes public. Our sell-side process protects every one of those relationships until closing.
We produce an institutional-grade offering memorandum — rent rolls, fuel volumes, c-store P&L, environmental status, and fuel supply contract analysis — and market to a curated database of North Florida operators, 1031 buyers, and institutional fuel investors under NDA.
The Group
The Gas Station Group works exclusively in fuel retail real estate — gas stations, convenience stores, truck stops, and fuel-related commercial property across Florida. We are not a generalist commercial brokerage; every engagement in Lake City is handled by specialists who transact only in this asset class. All transactions are brokered through Fausto Commercial.
Bobby Berrido, CCIM, CMAA leads Lake City representation with over a decade of Florida fuel-retail transaction experience across branded and unbranded programs, portfolio dispositions, and confidential off-market acquisitions.
Buyers active in Lake City typically also evaluate nearby North Florida markets. Sellers frequently pair a Lake City disposition with matching acquisition criteria across the region.
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