A new “Super” Wawa store for Williamstown under development at the busy intersection of Rt 322 and Tuckahoe Road has finally reached the stage where the building structure is going up.
I first reported on plans for this store when land clearing started in January of this year, and provided an update in April as part of a large Wawa construction update on several developments.
And I know readers will ask about an update for the Fries Mill Road intersection rebuild as well as the Monroe Township approved Heritages convenience store.
I will be posting that update very soon. It is already written as I had planned to include it in this article, but the combined commentary was just getting too long so I decided to split the articles. (And I wonder if my coverage last August 2023 on the Fries Mill Road intersection had some impact for the year-long halt on the intersection project. Well, I will explain later in that article)
Wawa Construction – Route 322 and Tuckahoe Road
A new Super Wawa with fuel pumps is under construction at the intersection of Route 322/Glassboro Road and Tuckahoe Road.
In my visit at the end of last week the steel frame of the convenience store building is standing, as well as the initial roof is installed. Exactly one month ago in October, just the initial cinderblock foundation was set.
Crews are also working in front of the store where six fuel pumps will be developed, working on the underground foundation and connector pipes to the fuel storage tanks.
For the new Wawa, from this point out I would expect we see fast and consistent development at the site.
Wawa uses two different sets of contractors… a local property development team secures the property and approvals, and also does the initial site preparation including grading and much of the underground utility work.
Once that is completed there can be several months of delay in queuing up the second contractor who then develops the building and gas pumps. The Williamstown Wawa has hit that “second contractor” phase, so we should see consistent and fast progress from this point forward.
This is a replacement store for an existing Wawa located at the same intersection, positioned catty-corner from this new development.
I first wrote about plans for this store in January of this year when the lot was being cleared, but this project was actually approved back in 2019… taking five years from Township approval before the first trucks were able to appear at the site.
The development calls for a 5,051 square foot Wawa convenience store with fuel pumps.
The property is a three acre parcel of land on the southwest corner of the intersection. This new tax lot was actually split up from a larger 9 acre lot. Planning Board minutes from 2019 state the other 6 acres feature significant wetlands and likely would not support additional development.
At 5,051 square feet, the store design appears to be a popular size and configuration for new Wawa developments… as a recently opened Penns Grove store as well as an Oaklyn location which opened last year, are the same size. A recently opened Logan Township store was about 10% larger.
This new Williamstown Wawa will feature 6 fueling pumps in front, all in a single row (12 positions total).
While the Penns Grove location is the exact same store size, it offers a “four by two” fueling pump configuration supporting eight pumps and 16 filling positions.
I do not have an official opening date, but store employees say they expect a Spring 2025 opening
Links and Location
Super Wawa Williamstown (Construction Starting)
Rt 322 (Glassboro Rd) and Tuckahoe Rd
Monroe Township NJ