Wawa convenience stores will celebrate the opening of two new locations for South Jersey this month with Penns Grove opening August 15th (tomorrow!), and Logan Township opening August 22nd.
Both locations are located along the southern portion of Route 130, not too far from the Delaware River.
The Penns Grove location is directly on Route 130 at Main St. The Logan Township Wawa is on Rt 322 in front of the new Burlington Coat Factory warehouse… but very close to the Route 130 interchange.
The Penns Grove layout is developed in a very traditional ”Convenience Store in back, Gas Pumps out front” design, whereas Logan Township is developed with the gas pumps positioned to the side of the convenience store building.
For each of the two store Grand Opening dates, Wawa will have their morning of celebration activities including T-shirts for the first 100 customers, as well as free any-size hot coffee for everyone, all day long.
Festivities start at 7:45 AM with a Wawa General Manager doing the countdown of the 8am door openings.
At 8:30am customers are invited to participate in a brief ceremony with remarks about the impact Wawa has had on the community. The Wawa signature Grand Opening event ”Hoagies for Heroes” hoagie-building competition featuring members of local police and fire departments will also take place at this time, followed by the official ribbon cutting ceremony with Wawa mascot Wally Goose.
42Freeway has been following the developments of these Wawas from the start, and back in April published a compilation update on Penns Grove, Logan, and Monroe Township.
Wawa Penns Grove – August 15th
The new Wawa for Penns Grove opens on August 15th and is located at 1 N Virginia Ave. A Facebook event has been created for the opening (Facebook).
This is a prime corner intersection for the Penns Grove area. As we’ve reported previously this property was originally home to Incollingo’s Market, which closed the Penns Grove location around 2022.
Immediately surrounding this intersection are many blocks of residential homes; Penns Grove and Carneys Point. A Route 295 interchange is just minutes away.
The extended property has previously seen development with a small strip store segment already open, and a McDonald’s is also under development.
Back in October of last year crews were just getting the site prepared for development. In the April the building had its exterior structure in place, and the gas canopy framework was installed… clearly the crews have worked hard to do a significant amount of work for this August 15th opening date.
Wawa Logan – August 22nd
The new Logan Township Wawa opens on August 22nd and is located at 2971 Route 322.
This is a slightly different development location as on a much busier roadway that in this section is highly developed with large warehouses. Bridgeport does have a small residential area close by, but for the most part it’s warehouses and travelers buzzing by on “322”.
Route 322 has become a well travelled road as it connects directly into the Commodore Barry bridge, making Route 322 not only popular for warehouse workers, their trucks and local residents… but also Pennsylvania citizens who particularly in the summertime are travelling Route 322 on their way to the Jersey Shore.
As mentioned earlier, the new Wawa sits in front of a recently developed large Burlington Coat Factory warehouse.
Wawa sits closer to the Route 130 interchange, and in this area of 322 the distance between Route 130 and the 295 interchange is less than two miles (which gives very good access to highways)
From may April visit both Logan and Penns Grove seem to be at the same construction stage, but then on closer inspection Logan was slightly behind Penns Grove… the front tower of Logan did not have its angled roof, for example.
Which fits perfectly into the timing of the opening next week, with Logan being a week after Penns Grove.
Cars heading West on Route 322 will be able to pull directly into the Wawa and exit out to the westbound side of 322. But access into Wawa from Eastbound side of 322 will need to utilize the nearby traffic signaled intersection (which also supports the newer warehouse)
Links and Locations
Wawa – Penns Grove (Opens Aug 15)
1 N Virginia Ave.
Penns Grove, NJ
Facebook Event
Wawa – Logan (Opens Aug 22)
2971 Route 322
Logan Township