The former Clark gas station at the corner of South Main and Sycamore streets was brought down Monday after facing facing possible foreclosure.

City officials have said they are reluctant to buy the property because

of possible issues with contamination from underground storage tanks no longer on site. Corrective action would have been more than possible. The abandoned station reports was up for public auction, and city officials said the company that owned it was in arrears for unpaid taxes.

The old Clark station once was a Unocal 76 station in the 1980s and before that it had a long shelf life as Jim and Merle Lohrberg’s Sunoco gas station. It was the first gas station in Wayland to move to self-serve, in 1976.