A third area Wawa site surfaced in Clay County, following two already reported in Duval County.
The three are among the first wave of Wawa Inc. sites as the Pennsylvania-based gas station and convenience store company debuts in Northeast Florida.
A site plan filed with Clay County Department of Economic & Development Services shows a Wawa with 16 fueling positions at northwest Blanding Boulevard and Filmore Street.
Like the other two stores identified in Jacksonville, the Wawa is on a corner with a traffic light, one of its stated site preferences.
The 6,119-square-foot store will sit on 1.9 acres of a 4.3-acre site, according to the site plan.
The property is owned by Jacksonville-based 680 Blanding Blvd. LLC, whose registered agent is Grunthal & Schueth Properties Inc. The applicant is EnVision Design + Engineering.
Site information shows two buildings on the site, totaling about 17,000 square feet, will be demolished for the project. Two other buildings, totaling about 11,000 square feet, will remain on the site.
The two reported Wawa Jacksonville locations are at Beach Boulevard and Central Parkway and at Gate and Town Center parkways in The Crossing near St. Johns Town Center. Both are 6,119 square feet.
Wawa has scheduled two “community partnership events” that day that are invitation-only to explain its intended expansion plans throughout Northeast Florida and talk about its timeline for opening stores in Clay and Duval County and throughout the region.
The first is 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in Clay County at the Thrasher-Horne Conference Center in Orange Park. The second is 5-7 p.m. at the Main Library in Downtown Jacksonville.
Wawa has said it considers the area a potential market of up to 25 stores.
Regional Real Estate Manager Brian Duke said May 19 that Wawa Inc. had five area locations under contract and contracts out for another six to eight. He declined to identify the sites, although he said most were in Jacksonville and a couple of them were in Clay County.
Duke said Wawa also was looking at St. Johns County.
Wawa has more than 725 stores. It entered Florida in 2012 and now has at least 87 locations in the state.
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