Wawa To Open Gas-Free Convenience Stores In DC

WASHINGTON, DC — About five to ten Wawa stores will open in DC in the next two years, according to WTOP. The new DC spots will be gas pump-free stores, and will instead focus more on Wawa's products, like their smoothies and built-to-order hoagies.

“Folks working in the high-rises and 24-hour hospitals and other things in urban environments need that place to touch down, get a cup of coffee, a smoothie, a great Wawa built-to-order hoagie," John Poplawski, Wawa's head of real estate development, told WTOP. "There are very few places in the District that can fit that bill."

One of the stores opening in Georgetown will apparently be a "unique restaurant style store," according to the site Popville. The restaurant-style Wawa will "feature the best of Wawa's products and innovations in a casual, inviting setting."

The beloved East Coast convenience store chain was founded in 1964 and operates more than 700 stores along the Interstate 95 corridor, including two locations in D.C.'s Maryland suburbs, and one in Chantilly in Northern Virginia.

Poplawski said the business will release a couple of new locations in the next 30 days.

See the WTOP post here.

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