A new “Super Wawa” fuel station and store is coming to Sumneytown Pike and Forty Foot Road in Towamencin, complete with gas pumps to be constructed on the old Lukoil parcel, just like the Wawa at Forty Foot and Welsh roads.
On Nov. 22, Towamencin Township Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the land development plans, which could begin next year, according to The Reporter.
In the article, Supervisors Chairman Chuck Wilson called the area “our ‘Main and Broad Street’, of our community.”
Plans to renovate the Wawa and the intersection have been going on for at least five years. According to the article, in 2017, the initial design showed the combining of the Wawa and Lukoil parcels into one large lot, with gas pumps and the store in front and a retail building behind. A new draft in 2018 removed the retail building behind the Wawa due to supervisors’ concerns of too many uses on the site, per the report.
The newest plans show a 5,000-square-foot store on the site of the current brick building, which would be demolished. There are 56 parking spaces surrounding the convenience store. The Lukoil parcel would have gas pumps under a canopy, according to the report.
The only qualms supervisors had were the types of lighting and the dimensions of a proposed garden wall along the perimeter of the property.
Read more about the supervisors’ concerns here.
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