Wawa is “still active in the city,” CEO Chris Gheysens said, despite some high-profile Philadelphia store closures during the pandemic that included the landmark location at Broad and Walnut streets and the outpost at 9th and South streets. 

“We have closed some stores and I think it’s a reflection of, in some cases, bad site location. Others [it’s] just the business, the environment there wasn’t for us,” Gheysens said. “It has, to be clear, gotten more challenging to operate a business in the city. That’s no surprise.”

Plans also recently fell through for a Super Wawa proposed at 1401 S. Columbus Blvd. as part of developer Bart Blatstein’s large-scale redevelopment along the Delaware River waterfront. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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