The owners of the Sumney-Forge Shopping Center at Valley Forge Road and Sumneytown Pike in Upper Gwynedd — where Wawa continues to operate among vacant storefronts — have submitted an early sketch plan to the township planning and zoning department to demolish the four-decade-old center and build a Wawa with gas pumps, also referred colloquially as a Super Wawa, according to The Reporter.
Township Planning and Zoning Officer Van Rieker told township commissioners last week the approval process for developer and owner Provco Pinegood Lansdale LLC should take six to 10 months, beginning with approval from the zoning hearing board to allow gas pumps on the site. Currently, a Marathon gas and service station exists next to the property at the corner of Sumneytown Pike and Valley Forge Road.
Provco Pinegood Lansdale LLC and Wawa have been involved in two court cases with the township, which have now been settled, per the article.
The property in question, according to The Reporter, was part of a court case in 2012 and 2013 when the township zoning hearing board approved, and then commissioners later appealed in 2012, a plan to add 10 gas pumps and expand the Wawa.
The second court case involved the plan in 2016 to combine the former parcels of The Sumney and Country Bride and Gent into one huge lot for a Wawa and gas station, per reports.
Read more on the sketch plan and the former court cases in detail here.
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