UpdatedWed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:39 pm CT Replies(5) Joliet's Council made the Gulf Express at 212 South Larkin Ave. a public nuisance last September. It remains boarded up, six months later. (Image via John Ferak/Joliet Patch Editor ) JOLIET, IL — It's been six months since the Joliet City Council flexed its muscles and voted to make the Gulf Express at 212 South Larkin Ave. a public nuisance. The Joliet gas station is owned by Samer Farhan, according to city records. "The property has been vacant and boarded for over six months," a Joliet City Council memo from last September read. Now that Joliet's City Council has taken action against Gulf, things are pretty much the same.