Wawa to Open Beer-Slinging ‘Stadium Store’ Near South Philadelphia Sports Complex

Wawa Closing in Center City

Wawa will open a new “stadium store” near South Philadelphia’s sports complex on Thursday as fans flood back into the area for live games after the city lifted local Covid-19 restrictions earlier this month.

The 2600 Penrose Ave. location will be the only Wawa in Philadelphia to sell beer, joining five other brew-slinging stores in Pennsylvania, including a couple in Delaware County. The debut of the stadium store, located about two miles from the sports complex, comes with a programming series promoting Philadelphia’s bid to host FIFA World Cup matches in 2026.

The stadium store’s 8 a.m. opening will kick off with a coffee toast by Alejandro Bedoya, captain of the Philadelphia Union and honorary co-chair of Philadelphia Soccer 2026, the nonprofit overseeing Philly’s bid to host the World Cup. The international tournament will be held at venues across North America in 2026, and Philadelphia is among 17 U.S. cities under consideration to host games.

Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens and David L. Cohen, senior advisor to the CEO at Comcast Corp. and chair of Philadelphia Soccer 2026, will also attend the opening to talk about the city’s World Cup bid. The Delaware County-based convenience store chain will preview an interactive soccer exhibit supporting the bid that will display at the Independence Visitors Center as part of the 2021 Wawa Welcome America Festival that kicks off Sunday.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Philly Retail Space for Lease on Street Road in Bensalem

3340 Street Road, Bensalem, PA

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Philly Retail Space for Lease on Street Road in Bensalem

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Wells Fargo Closing 21 More Branches, Including Two in the Philadelphia Area

Wells Fargo & Co. will close 21 more branches, including locations in Philadelphia and Gloucester counties, as part of its broader plan to cut billions of dollars in costs to keep pace with its rivals.

The impacted branches include locations at 5119 Frankford Ave. in the Frankford section of Philadelphia and 101 Vera King Ferris Drive in Galloway, New Jersey.

They are among a batch of locations San Francisco-based Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) filed to close on May 11 with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Other sites are in Maryland, Arizona, Virginia, Georgia, New York, Connecticut, Utah, Illinois, Colorado and South Carolina.

This is the latest batch of closings and brings the current total to 160 applications received from Wells by the OCC so far in 2021. Earlier this year, the bank announced plans to close locations in front of the King of Prussia Mall at 694 W. Dekalb Pike, on the campus of Villanova University at 800 E. Lancaster Ave., at 5458 Germantown Ave. in Germantown and 2300 Snyder Ave. in South Philadelphia, as well as one in Lancaster County and two in Berks County.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Giant to Open Four New Stores in Philadelphia

A little more than a month after Giant opened a flagship store at Riverwalk in Center City, the company is accelerating its growth in Philadelphia and plans four additional stores in the city.

The company plans to open one of its Heirloom stores in 32,000 square feet at Fashion District Philadelphia and three Giant stores. Fashion District is owned by Macerich Cos. (NYSE: MAC) and is representative of how mall owners are incorporating a variety of uses in their retail properties.

The location of the new Giant stores had previously been confirmed by the company though their sizes now disclosed as 46,000 square feet on Columbus Boulevard at the corner of Reed Street; a 50,000-square-foot store on North Broad Street at the corner of Spring Garden Street; and a 40,000 square foot store at Tower Investment’s project at South Broad Street at the corner of Washington Avenue. When the stores will be opened weren’t disclosed by the Carlisle company.

Giant employs 600 people in Philadelphia and expects to hire another 700 employees for the four new locations.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Amazon on Hiring Spree to Open First Amazon Fresh Grocery Store in Bucks County

Amazon Fresh Bucks County

Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to open its first Amazon Fresh grocery store in the region at Creekview Center off Easton Road in Warrington.

The store will be housed in roughly 35,000 square feet of 49,000 square feet of a former Giant. The Seattle company is hiring “hundreds of employees” in full and part-time positions at the store and hasn’t set an opening date, according to an Amazon spokeswoman. “We’re working hard to get our store ready for customers,” the spokeswoman said.

In a reflection of how challenging it has become to attract employees in grocery, fast food, restaurant, hospitality and other industries, Amazon said it has set starting wages for the Warrington store at a minimum of $15 an hour, will offer benefits and a $1,500 signing bonus.

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) owns and operates Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh is billed as a new low-price concept. It introduced the Amazon Fresh store in August 2020 in Woodland Hills, California. The stores incorporate several new technologies including its Amazon Dash Cart, which gives a customer the option to avoid a check-out line, as well as help from its digital assistant, Alexa, which will provide a customer information about where to find a product in a store.

Amazon has been eyeing various locations across the region to expand its grocery concept. In addition to Warrington, it is planning to open another store in Bucks County in 41,000 square feet of a former Kmart at the Brookwood Shopping Center on Street Road in Bensalem as well as in about 40,000 square feet at a mixed-use project at 5th and Spring Garden in Philadelphia. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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WSFS identifies 34 Philadelphia-area branches it will close as part of Bryn Mawr Trust deal

More than half of all Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. branches will close after it merges into WSFS Financial Corp.

Wilmington-based WSFS (NASDAQ: WSFS) identified the 34 locations in a recent regulatory filing, including 22 of 41 branches from Bryn Mawr subsidiary Bryn Mawr Tust and 12 of the 89 WSFS Bank locations. The shuttered branches include nine each in Delaware and Montgomery counties, five each in Philadelphia and Chester counties, one in Bucks County, four in the state of Delaware and one in South Jersey. The combined bank would move from 130 branches to 96.

When the $976 million deal was announced last month, WSFS said it would close 40 branches, most likely after the deal closes in the fourth quarter and when the two banks merge computer systems and brands in the first quarter of 2022. WSFS Chief Financial Officer Dominic Canuso said the bank expects to close another six locations within the next two years, which would give the combined entity 90 retail locations.

Bryn Mawr helped that process a bit by closing two locations on its own that were not included in the WSFS SEC filing — one in Roxborough and another in Hershey that it inherited from its $18.3 million acquisition of the private wealth management group at the Hershey Trust Co. in 2011. That would bring the branch total down to 94 and would leave WSFS with only four more cuts to reach its goal.

Neither Bryn Mawr executives nor Canuso would explain why the Hershey location was closing. Hershey is sort of on an island, as Bryn Mawr’s other 40 locations are situated in southeast Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Delaware. The branch itself also only has a little less than $20 million in deposits, about a fifth of the $100 million that most banks would consider to be a desirable number.

Canuso said 70% of the closures were because of their close proximity to another location. For example, there are 14 ZIP codes in southeastern Pennsylvania where both banks have branches. The remainder will be part of WSFS’s focus on digitalization at a time when the pace of branch consolidation has accelerated industrywide due to the pandemic.

Of the 34 branches being shuttered, 22 are within two miles or less of another location operated by the combined bank — 10 of those being less than a mile. Only four are more than three miles from another branch.

“Most are within two miles or a seven-minute drive from another branch,” Canuso said. “The other ones are part of a holistic review. It used to be that you needed a branch where customers lived, worked and played. Now you only need to have one in one of those three because they use the phone to bank like people use Amazon to shop or GrubHub to eat.”

WSFS decided to close Bryn Mawr’s branch in the city of Chester, as well as another one nearby in Chester Heights. Long-struggling Chester now only has two bank branches within the city limits — one each from Wells Fargo Bank and TD Bank. But the Bryn Mawr Trust location only had about $18 million in deposits and Canuso said customers from Chester will only have to travel less than two miles to the nearest branch in Eddystone.

“It’s located in a large shopping center with a drive thru and easy access to public transportation,” Canuso said.

WSFS also closed all nine Bryn Mawr Trust limited-service branches situated in retirement communities. Only one of those locations, the Shannondell retirement community in Oaks, has more than $10 million in deposits. Canuso said each of those sites are within two miles of another branch.

Those locations have limited hours and only require the equivalent of one and a half employees to staff, as opposed to five in a normal branch. That means there will be fewer displaced workers for which WSFS will need to find jobs at other locations. Canuso said the goal is still to find jobs for every employee that wants one.

As it stands now, WSFS would have 54 branches in southeastern Pennsylvania after the consolidation, including 13 in Philadelphia, 16 in Montgomery County, 14 in Delaware County, nine in Chester County and three in Bucks County.

WSFS has not offered specifics on cost savings from the branch consolidation. It will endure $127 million in pre-tax, one-time merger-related expenses but says it will recoup that via about $73 million of annual cost savings, which represent 45% of Bryn Mawr’s operating expenses based on consensus street estimates.

Below is a list of all affected branches with the bank operating the location in parentheses. Information on the nearest branches to those closing can be found here.

* = limited service branch

    • 20 Woodside Road, Ardmore (WSFS)
    • 599 Skippack Pike, Blue Bell (WSFS)
    • 12 E Ridge Pike, Conshohocken (WSFS)
    • 110 Town Square Place, King Of Prussia (WSFS)
    • 901 Montgomery Ave., Narberth (WSFS)
    • 10000 Shannondell Drive, Audubon (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 601 North Ithan Ave., Bryn Mawr (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 1400 Waverly Road, Gladwyne (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 33 W Ridge Pike, Limerick (Bryn Mawr)
    • 1201 E Lancaster Ave., Downingtown (WSFS)
    • 106 E Street Road, Kennett Square (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 1 West Lancaster Ave., Paoli (WSFS)
    • 849 Paoli Pike, West Chester (Bryn Mawr)
    • 1615 East Boot Road, West Chester (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 23 East Fifth St., Chester (Bryn Mawr)
    • Route 1 And Stoney Bank Road, Chester Heights (Bryn Mawr)
    • 18 W Eagle Road, Havertown (Bryn Mawr)
    • 22 West State St., Media (Bryn Mawr)
    • 330 Dartmouth Ave., Swarthmore (Bryn Mawr)
    • 404 Cheswick Place, Bryn Mawr (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 3300 Darby Road, Haverford (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 11 Martins Run, Media (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 535 Gradyville Road, Newtown Square (Bryn Mawr*)
    • 1903 Street Road, Bensalem (WSFS)
    • 1230 Walnut St., Philadelphia (Bryn Mawr)
    • 1650 Grant Ave., Philadelphia (Bryn Mawr)
    • 6331 Castor Ave., Philadelphia (Bryn Mawr)
    • 7622 City Line Ave., Philadelphia (WSFS)
    • 10th & Catharine streets, Philadelphia (WSFS)
    • 2 Greenville Crossing, Greenville, Delaware (Bryn Mawr)
    • 2400 Peoples Plaza, Newark, Delaware (Bryn Mawr)
    • 22820 Sussex Highway, Sussex Common Shop, Seaford, Delaware (WSFS)
    • 38394 Dupont Boulevard-Strawberry Ctr #2, Selbyville, Delaware (WSFS)
    • 1651 Blackwood Clementon Road, Blackwood, New Jersey (Bryn Mawr)

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

 

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Wells Fargo closing 24 more branches, including two in Philadelphia area

Wells Fargo & Co. will close 24 more branches, including locations in Montgomery and Delaware counties, as part of its broader plan to cut billions of dollars in costs to keep pace with its rivals.

The impacted branches include its location in front of the King of Prussia Mall at 694 W. Dekalb Pike and another on the campus of Villanova University at 800 E. Lancaster Ave. Two Berks County sites in Shillington and Wyomissing will also close.

They are among a batch of locations San Francisco-based Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) filed to close this month with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Other sites are in Texas, Florida, California, Washington, D.C., Idaho, Oregon, South Dakota, Illinois, Montana, Iowa, North Carolina, Virginia, Minnesota and Washington state.

This is the latest batch of closings and brings the current total to 138 applications received from Wells by the OCC so far in 2021. Earlier this year, the bank announced plans to close locations at 5458 Germantown Ave. in Germantown and 2300 Snyder Ave. in South Philadelphia as well as another in Lancaster County.

Wells Fargo closed 329 of its 5,200 branches last year and has plans to shutter about 250 this year. CEO Charles Scharf told investors in July that the bank needs to shave off at least $10 billion in annual expenses, which amounts to 20% of its annual cost base, to rival efficiency at other banks.

Locally, the region’s largest deposit taker closed 12 locations in the Philadelphia area last year as well as another six combined in the Lehigh Valley, Berks County and the Jersey Shore. All but two came after Scharf’s announcement.

Since the FDIC’s annual deposit data was recorded last June 30, Wells Fargo has reduced its branch count in the immediate Philadelphia region from 172 to 161. When factoring in the broader region that includes Delaware, the Jersey Shore, the Lehigh Valley and Berks County, the bank has gone from 281 locations to 265.

The pace of bank branch closings has picked up significantly during the pandemic, as more customers have become comfortable with online and mobile banking platforms. Several banks with major Philadelphia-area operations are the most avid consolidators.

TD Bank recently filed to close 81 of its 1,223 branches, including 11 in this region. PNC closed 160 branches last year and plans to close at least another 120 this year. Citizens eliminated 50 branches in 2020 and 47 already in the first quarter of this year.

Since annual FDIC deposit data was released on June 30, Wells Fargo & Co. closed 367 of its 5,410 locations (almost 7%), Citizens Bank shuttered 62 of its 892 locations (7%), and PNC Bank closed 149 of its 2,324 branches (6%).

Here is the full list of local branches Wells Fargo has closed since the start of June 30, 2020:

    • 43 E. Main St., Norristown
    • 1131 N. 5th St., Perkasie
    • 8001 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia
    • 399 Bristol Pike, Croydon
    • 599 E. Lancaster Ave., St. David’s
    • 75 St. James Place, Ardmore
    • 500 Chesterbrook Blvd., Chesterbrook
    • 25 W. Skippack Pike, Ambler
    • 951 Trenton Road, Fairless Hills
    • 2701 West Chester Pike, Broomall
    • 500 Hurffville-Cross Keys Road, Sewell
    • 451 White Horse Pike, Atco
    • 201 Philadelphia Ave., Egg Harbor City
    • 2002 W. Liberty St., Allentown
    • 335 Main St., Emmaus
    • 1 N. Broadway, Wind Gap
    • 301 W. Main St., Kutztown
    • 1 W. Main Street, Mt. Joy

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Post Brothers Underway on 1,144-Unit Multifamily Project in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Locally based multifamily developer Post Brothers is underway on construction of Piazza Terminal, a three-building, 1,144-unit multifamily project in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia.

The transit-oriented development, which is slated for completion in December 2022, will also include retail and open green space. Piazza Terminal will offer amenities such as a fitness center and a dog park. BKV Group is the project architect, and Bohler is the civil engineer.

*Article courtesy of REBusinessOnline

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Amazon Confirms Plans for Bucks County Grocery Store as other East Coast Locations Prepare to Open

Amazon Fresh

Amazon’s plans to open grocery stores in the Philadelphia region have been rumored for nearly a year, and the tech giant has now confirmed at least one of those locations will be in Warrington Township, Bucks County.

The company revealed this week that it will open its first grocery stores on the East Coast in the near future, beginning with a pair of locations in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle and Northern Virginia’s Franconia area. Amazon already has begun hiring for those locations.

Amazon also confirmed two other stores, the one in Warrington and another in Chevy Chase, Maryland, CNBC reported.

The Warrington location is expected to open in the Creekview Center at 425 Easton Road, replacing a former Giant supermarket. The shopping center also has a Target and a Lowe’s.

Warrington Township Board of Supervisors chair Fred Gaines told the Doylestown Patch the Amazon grocery store has been “one of the worst kept secrets in town,” but certain details remain to be figured out.

Amazon has not yet publicly said whether any of the four upcoming stores will be Amazon Fresh stores. The Fresh brand debuted last September in Los Angeles and has since expanded to 11 total locations in Southern California and the Chicago suburbs.

According to WTOP News in Washington, D.C., the Logan Circle location will be an Amazon Fresh and the Franconia location will be an Amazon Go, the smaller-format convenience store that has locations in Seattle and Redmond, Washington.

Amazon Fresh locations are known for their tech-enabled features, including smart Dash Carts that enable customers to bypass the checkout line. The company is currently testing a “Just Walk Out” option at one of its Illinois stores. The technology uses a combination of computer vision algorithms and sensor fusion to identify items shoppers put in their carts. Sensors in the Amazon Dash Cart lane process payments using the credit card on a shopper’s Amazon account.

In contrast to Amazon’s Whole Foods brand, Amazon Fresh appeals more to middle class customers and will emphasize speedier fulfillment of online orders, according to Morgan Stanley analysts. A section of the store also is dedicated for pick-up and return of Prime packages.

Last month, Bloomberg reported that Amazon had plans for at least 28 more Fresh locations in addition to the 11 that currently exist. The company reportedly hopes to challenge established supermarket chains.

Two other Amazon grocery stores have been rumored in the Philadelphia area over the past year, including a location at a project planned in Northern Liberties and in Bensalem, Bucks County, where the company signed a lease last summer for a warehouse fulfillment center.

A timeline for the opening of the Warrington location remains to be determined.

*Article courtesy of Philly Voice

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